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It may not be clear hundreds of thousands of he Goods and Services Tax Minister Narendra Modi on news agency AP, the United until the three-day summit Muslims in its restive Xinjiang T(GST) has been waived for 6  /  , #, Saturday called for “One Earth, States plans to push democra- ends on Sunday whether the region. two critical drugs against .  1/     One Health,” in apparent ref- tic allies to publicly call out leaders will take that step. Rajagopalan from Covid-19 and black fungus    #8  #8   erence to collective effort to China for forced labour prac- The wealthy nations’ lead- BuzzFeed News is among two Tocilizumab and Amphotericin 6 1.  1)  #!006  # ' . -. meet the challenge and equi- tices as the Group of Seven ers were all smiles and unity as Indian-origin journalists who B. Tax rates have been reduced )    4)9.5  table distribution of resources. leaders gathered at a summit they were welcomed to the won the US’ top journalism to 5 per cent on 14 major pan- He made this appeal while where they will also unveil an summit on Friday by British award on Friday. demic relief goods, including .,8*(  #   participating in the virtual infrastructure plan meant to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tampa Bay Times’ Neil testing kits and hand sanitisers, *  (     (% ' . -. ongoing G-7 summit in United compete with Beijing’s efforts on the freshly raked sand of Bedi won for local reporting. from prevailing rates in the ( #*$%: $() Kingdom. in the developing world. Carbis Bay in southwest Bedi along with Kathleen range of 12 per cent and 18 per )   #       With the world now The provocative proposal is England for their first gather- McGrory has been awarded cent.  #/ 1&    '0. -. urgently needing vaccine to outreach session on Saturday part of President Joe Biden’s ing since 2019. the prize for the series expos- The 44th GST Council          combat the pandemic, French and will speak again on Sunday escalating campaign to get fel- Last year’s gathering was ing a Sheriff’s Office initiative meeting on Saturday also 0 ,     President Emmanuel Macron morning. low democratic leaders to pre- cancelled because of Covid-19, that used computer modelling decided to slash tax rates on ' . -. favoured unhindered raw He was invited to attend sent a more unified front to and recovery from the pan- to identify people believed to medicines and equipment used    # material supplies to countries the summit by British Prime compete economically with demic is dominating this year’s be future crime suspects. for the treatment of Covid-19 like to India to produce vaccine Minister Boris Johnson. Given China in the century ahead, discussions, with members of About 1,000 people were mon- A notification to this effect    0. ' . in large numbers, sources said. the situation at home, Modi according to two senior admin- the wealthy democracies’ club itored under the programme, will be issued within a day or Chancellor Angela Merkel opted to participate in the istration officials who briefed expected to commit to sharing including children. Bedi is an two. The 5 per cent GST levied 30, but could be extended fur- the existing 5 per cent. The specifically referred to PM’s prestigious meet virtually. reporters on the condition of at least 1 billion vaccine shots investigative reporter for the on vaccines was left ther based on later assess- GST rate on Remdesivir and mantra and conveyed strong Modi had taken part in this anonymity because they were with struggling countries. Tampa Bay Times. unchanged, following the ments. The decision to slash anticoagulants like Heparin is support, news agency ANI event in 2019 when France not authorised to discuss the China also loomed large “What Kathleen and Neil recent changes in the country’s tax rates was based on a rec- lowered from 12 per cent to 5 quoted GoI sources as saying. chaired the G-7. India partic- plans for the seaside summit over the meeting on the crag- unearthed in Pasco County has vaccine procurement strategy ommendation of a Group of per cent. The GST rate on Australian PM Scott ipated then as a “Goodwill publicly. gy coast of Cornwall. Biden’s had a profound impact on the that puts the Union govern- Ministers, headed by ambulances has been cut to 12 Morisson referred to his dis- Partner” and Modi participat- The officials said Biden proposed critique of China’s community,” said Mark ment in charge of augmenting Meghalaya Deputy Chief per cent from 28 per cent. Tax cussions with PM Modi earli- ed in the sessions on “Climate, wanted G-7 leaders to speak labour practices was to be Katches, Times executive edi- supplies. Minister Conrad Sangma, and on medical grade oxygen, oxy- er about TRIPS waiver and Biodiversity and Oceans” and out in a single voice against raised as the allies unveil an tor. “This is what the best The reduced rates, which would remain effective till gen concentrator (including conveyed strong support of “Digital Transformation”. forced labour practices target- infrastructure proposal dubbed investigative journalism can do Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj September 30, 2021. personal imports), ventilators, Australia. During the ongoing sum- ing Uyghur Muslims and other “Build Back Better for the and why it is so essential.” said were aimed at providing The GST rate on COVID- BiPAP machines and high flow Modi also spoke on ways to mit at Cromwall, Modi will vir- ethnic minorities. Biden hopes World,” a name that echoes the Rajagopalan’s Xinjiang some succour to the people 19 drug Tocilizumab and black nasal cannula (HFNC) devices come out of the pandemic at tually take part in three sessions the denunciation will be part of slogan of Biden’s poll cam- series won the Pulitzer Prize in amid the pandemic, will fungus medicine Amphotericin has been cut to 5 per cent from the earliest. He addressed the on the themes “Building Back the joint communique released paign. the International category. remain effective till September B will be reduced to nil from 12 per cent.  !   / ' '      !"#                  %4 $%675        $                  / 0,0,         nal consumption first and later  %                    .,0&)/& a committee may decide to       publicly release whole or parts             &'(&$)* enmark midfielder of it, considering the sensitiv- !      * /%8 Christian Eriksen was ity of the subject, officials said.  O!     D      t a time when the people, 9090'9: taken to a hospital on The requirement of hav- "# $%%   "   # at least in the urban areas Saturday after collapsing on ing war histories written with      A    are hankering for the Covid-19 the field during a match at clear cut policy on declassifi-      vaccines to protect themselves    (1 1223 the European Championship. cation of war records was rec-  .)(*/-) $  % %     from deadly virus, 453-1--6 The governing body of  &'(&$)* ommended by the Kargil      Government data shows that European soccer said Eriksen Review Committee, headed he Shiromani Akali Dal      " only 17 per cent of the 1.85 782'3045723'6 has been stabilised and the he Government on by K Subrahmanyam, as well as T(SAD) and the Bahujan crore doses were utilised by   02'-211 Danish soccer federation said TSaturday gave the nod for NN Vohra Committee in order Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday private hospitals last month, he was awake. declassification of war or mil- to analyse lessons learnt and announced an alliance to con- leaving a massive stock 45'''8716 “Christian Eriksen is itary operations’ histories to prevent future mistakes. test the 2022 Punjab Assembly unused. awake and is undergoing fur- provide people an authentic Giving details, officials elections together. An As per the Union Health  '2 8 8' ther examinations at account. However, it has the said Defence Minister Rajnath announcement was made       Ministry statement issued ear- Rigshospitalet,” the Danish discretionary powers to with- Singh approved the policy on jointly by SAD president          lier this month, a total of 7.4 ;-0(0--245'23(86 federation wrote on Twitter. hold any information consid- archiving, declassification and Sukhbir Badal and BSP              crore doses were made avail- P  8-87 145(80-6 The Euro 2020 match ered sensitive. compilation of histories of national general secretary able across the country in between Denmark and It means, some major wars and operations by his Satish Chandra Mishra at the       May, out of which 1.85 crore   30337245'707 6 Finland was suspended after events like the India-China Ministry. SAD head office in doses were earmarked for pri- Eriksen was given urgent war in 1962 chronicled in the The objective behind this Chandigarh. Sukhbir Badal said it is not just vate hospitals. However, the  77(82-45'-'206 medical attention on the field Henderson Brooks report will move was that timely publica- The SAD-BSP had entered limited to the 2022 Assembly Government data showed that near the end of the first half. not be made public as of now tion of war histories will give into an alliance long back for elections, but would continue only 22 lakh doses were   '17200145 '76 Christian Eriksen was and will remain classified, people an accurate account of the 1996 Lok Sabha polls and in future also. Both the SAD utilised. treated for about 10 minutes sources said here. the events, provide authentic won 11 out of 13 seats in and the BSP have the same Experts feel that the huge after collapsing. Moreover, the new policy material for academic research Punjab. ideology and have always stock lying with the private high prices of vaccinations He was then carried off for declassification before the and counter the unfounded Terming the alliance as worked for the welfare of the hospitals could be due to the and vaccine hesitancy. on a stretcher. 25 years cap will be for inter- rumours, the Ministry said. historic, the SAD chief farmers, poor and labourers. #& ' "(R            &'( )$  !$%RQ +, 'R  '             $  * %  demand Rahul to hold a Press     conference and clarify,” Patra  * said.       (2!* !)     He alleged the Congress &'(&$)*  01&'(&$)* and Pakistan are in the same audi Arabia announced on +  page on the Kashmir issue and isgruntled Congress leader SSaturday this year’s Haj pil- mid the buzz of a Cabinet article 370. DSachin Pilot on Saturday grimage will be limited to no Areshuffle in the Narendra - + &! “Today an important topic met Rajasthan incharge Ajay more than 60,000 people, all of Modi Government, the Janata going on in TV channels is Maken and AICC general sec- them from within the king- Dal(U), which is part of the ‘Clubhouse’. We all have seen retary (organisation) KC dom, due to the ongoing coro- NDA at Centre and in the  &'(&$)* through TV channels how the Venugopal in an effort to iron navirus pandemic. Bihar Government, on veteran leader of the club- out the differences between The announcement by the Saturday expected a mid the controversy over house -- Singh is spewing him and the party for over a kingdom comes after it ran an “respectable” share in the Athe Congress “Clubhouse” venom against India outside year now against Rajasthan incredibly pared-down pil- Union Council of Ministers. chat of former Madhya Pradesh Singh conveyed Rahul’s mes- and how he is agreeing with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. grimage last year over the Bihar Chief Minister Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh, sage to Pakistan. The Congress Pakistan’s demands. This is the While Pilot has remained virus, but still allowed a small Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) had the BJP on Saturday said the will help Pakistan in grabbing same Singh, who had called the tightlipped since he landed in are engaged in resolving the number of the faithful to take firms that this arrangement opted out from a Cabinet berth Congress’ first love is Pakistan Kashmir.” Pulwama attack just an acci- Delhi on Friday evening, issues. part in the annual ceremony. comes out of its constant con- when the NDA retained power and “both share same views on Lashing out at the dent, he had called the 26/11 Maken ruled out any differ- A statement on the state- cern for the health, safety and in 2019. Kashmir.” Congress, BJP spokesperson attack a conspiracy of RSS and ences and that both have been ./ &! run Saudi Press Agency quot- security of pilgrims as well as “We are a part of the The BJP demanded Sambit Patra said the Congrees also tried to give clean chit to talking and meeting regularly. ed the kingdom’s Haj and the safety of their countries,” NDA... All constituents answers from Congress leaders should change its name from Pakistan at that time,” said “I am speaking to Pilotji on a  +0*! Umrah Ministry making the the statement said. deserve a respectable share Sonia and Rahul Gandhi on Indian National Congress to Patra. regular basis. Had he been Mumbai: A day after election announcement. It said this In last year’s Haj, as few as (in the Modi Government,” Singh’s comment on the Anti-national Congress which As the BJP attacked him, angry, he would not be speak- strategist Prashant Kishor met year’s Haj, which will begin in 1,000 people already residing in JD(U) chief RCP Singh told the restoration of Article 370 in he alleged “not only siding Singh posted a tweet in Hindi ing to me,” Maken, a former NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a mid-July, will be limited to Saudi Arabia were selected to media in Patna on Saturday. Jammu and Kashmir. with Pakistan but also with in an apparent jibe at the rul- Union Minister, said. spokesperson of the party on those ages 18 to 65. Those tak- take part in the Haj. Two-thirds After the exit of 18 MP- Union Minister Giriraj China to show India down.” ing party. Maken mentioned that Saturday said there is a need to ing part must be vaccinated as were foreign residents from strong Shiv Sena, JD(U) has Singh said Pakistan is the first “What do Sonia and Rahul “This bunch of illiterate vacant positions in the have a “wider alliance” of polit- well, the ministry said. among the 160 different become the largest of BJP’s love of the Congress. In a think about Digvijaya’s people cannot probably differ- Rajasthan Cabinet, boards and ical parties against the ruling “The kingdom of Saudi nationalities that would have allies in Parliament — 5 in the tweet, Singh said, “The Clubhouse statement? Is this entiate between ‘shall’ and ‘con- commissions would be filled BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sbha Arabia, which is honoured to normally been represented at the Rajya Sabha, and 16 in the Congress’ first love is Pakistan. Congress’ stand too? We sider’,” he said. soon and leaders of the party polls. host pilgrims every year, con- the Haj. Lok Sabha. 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Saturday. the State. tions while chairing a virtual in the number of Covid-19 Coronavirus (Covid-19) and he Bharatiya Janata Party meeting with the state office cases in the state, the party 19 deaths from the disease on TState president Madan bearers of the party. organisation is observing more Saturday. The authorities also            ;.6 Kaushik said that the Covid The BJP Uttarakhand pres- alertness than before. The reported 695 recoveries from relief work being undertaken ident Madan Kaushik informed party’s control rooms are work- the disease on the day. The by the party in the state will that the meeting of the state ing as they were before and state now has 3,36, 616  (&)-(2 continue without respite. He working committee and district connected with the booth level. (cumulative) patients with said this after attending a vir- working committee will be The party workers are now the disease while a total of hief minister Tirath Singh tual meeting held by national held in the virtual mode. The focusing on vaccination work. 6928 patients have suc- CRawat chaired a virtual president JP Nadda and nation- Mandal level meeting will be The party will also be starting cumbed to the disease so far. meeting with district magis- al general secretary (organisa- held in the offline mode. He a campaign to felicitate Covid A total of 3,18,930 trates to review the status of tion) BL Santhosh with all the said that preparations for the warriors and visiting the homes patients have so far recovered Covid-19 control and the state unit heads and general party’s Chintan Shivir are also of the party workers who lost from the disease and the progress of the vaccination secretaries. They directed all underway and that the site their life or a family member to recovery percentage has programme in the state. He the state unit presidents and will be finalised soon. Referring Covid. The list of such party climbed to 94.75 percent. The said that complaints are being general secretaries to further to the Covid relief works being workers has been prepared. samples of 19,896 suspected received about some private step up work under the Seva Hi undertaken by the party, he He further said that at the patients were sent for testing hospitals charging more than Sangathan programme of the said that these will continue organisational level, prepara- on Saturday and the sample the fixed charge from patients party. They also directed the without respite. The central tions are being made for the positivity rate is at 6.60 per- and not providing the benefit organisation of the party’s state leadership of the party also possible third wave of Covid in cent. of the Atal Ayushman card. working committee, district sought feedback regarding the coordination with the health Out of the 19 deaths Strict action should be taken working committee and zonal works being undertaken in the department and other officials reported on Saturday, three against hospitals indulging in working committee. state. Kaushik said that though concerned. occurred at All India Institute such actions. Officials should of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) ensure that inspections of hos- Rishikesh while two patients pitals are conducted from time each died at Prasad Doon to time, said Rawat.      hospital, Mahant Indiresh The chief minister direct- hospital Dehradun and ed that special focus be laid on Sushila Tiwari Government testing, micro containment Hospital Haldwani on the zones, Covid appropriate     3#& day. behaviour and enforcement. The provisional state cap- All preparations should be  (&)-(2 second wave of Covid while allegations and counter allega- ital Dehradun reported 124, completed considering the pos- playing a negligible role in tions. Haridwar 93, Nainital 53, sible third wave of Covid-19. hile teaching others serving the public. They have When the people in the Pithoragarh 45, Almora 30, He observed that preparations Wabout policy, system and not been able to do anything state were hassled for oxygen Champawat 25, Bageshwar were good in all the districts service, the Congress is busy in aparty from playing negative and blood among other ser- 22, Udham Singh Nagar 20, but added that focus should be internal factionalism instead of politics and consistently raising vices, the BJP workers provid- Tehri 15, Pauri 13, Chamoli laid on how to take these fighting against Covid-19. questions at the system. Due to ed all the facilities to the gen- 12, Rudraprayag eight and arrangements further ahead. Stating this, the Bharatiya this, the impression among eral public across the state. Uttarkashi three new cases of He said that testing and vacci- Covid-19. There is adequate the probable third wave of superintendent of police should Janata Party state president the general public is that the The situation is now con- the disease on Saturday. nation should be stepped up arrangement of oxygen, ICU Covid. The target of conduct- be deputed for this purpose, he Madan Kaushik opined that the Congress is fighting against the siderably under control and the The state now has 5,021 further in the rural areas. beds and ventilators. Oxygen ing 40,000 tests per day should added. Congress is banking solely on public instead of standing with focus is now on preventing the active patients of the disease. Regular camps should be plants are also being established be achieved. Public awareness The chief minister’s chief disinformation to somehow it. Kaushik said, “The Congress third wave and serving the Pauri district is at top of the organised for this purpose. In at the community health cen- campaign should be conduct- advisor Shatrughna Singh, win the coming elections in the accorded priority to protests public. However, the Congress table in the list of active cases view of the monsoon season, tre apart from the district level. ed consistently to help in effec- additional chief secretary state to return to power. He said and rallies instead of serving is focusing on the 2022 elec- with 824 cases while adequate quantities of oxygen The chief minister further told tive control on Covid. Focus Manisha Panwar, director gen- that Congress leaders were the public. It fanned misinfor- tions and the party’s leader in Pithoragarh is in second posi- cylinders, essential medicines the officials to be prepared to should also be laid on new eral of police Ashok Kumar, busy visiting Delhi during the mation apart from leveling Delhi.” tion with 679 active cases. and all types of required mate- face all types of challenges in media for publicity. The coop- secretaries Amit Singh Negi, R Haridwar has 583, Almora rials should be arranged for in the fight against Covid. eration of theatre artistes Meenakshi Sundaram, Pankaj 531, Tehri 430, Nainital 361, the mountainous regions. Addressing the officials, should be taken for this pur- Pandey and director general of Bageshwar 289, Chamoli 261, The chief minister reiter- chief secretary Om Prakash pose. The chief secretary also health, Dr Tripti Bahuguna     Champawat 251, Rudraprayag ated that the state government stressed on the need for observ- stressed on the need for special along with other officials con- 226, Udham Singh Nagar 216, is taking all possible measures ing special vigilance in the focus on enforcement. Police cerned were also present in Dehradun 204 and Uttarkashi to ensure effective control on next two months considering officers of the level of deputy the meeting.      166 active cases of the disease.  )-*('- the pandemic behind us and vaccinated more than 10,000 beneficiaries during various he Bharatiya Janata Party !   vaccination drives which have .6  2  6   D% (  Tstate president and    .   been organised over the past Haridwar MLA Madan month.  (&)-(2 to discuss different pertinent 1 / &%   &23 agriculture and Panchayati Raj met the Prime Minister Kaushik inaugurated a Covid   / We look forward to a pos- issues related to the state.       minister Narendra Singh Tomar. Narendra Modi, BJP national vaccination drive organised by    "  itive response from people in hief minister Tirath Singh According to official      Rawat is also slated to meet president JP Nadda, union min- Max super speciality hospi-   our drive against Covid-19.” CRawat will leave for a two- sources, the chief minister will the railway and commerce and isters Rajnath Singh and Nitin tal,Dehradun in Haridwar. The Those wishing to avail of day visit to the national Capital meet the union minister of tex-       industry minister Piyush Goyal, Gadkari among others. vaccination centre has been set the best contribution we can all the facility will mandatorily on Sunday. tiles, women and child devel-     union minister of state for civil According to observers, his lat- up at Jawaharlal Nehru make together in these trying book an appointment on the He is slated to pay courtesy opment, Smriti Irani, union      aviation, housing and urban est round of meetings with National Youth Centre. times is to get everyone vacci- CoWIN portal visits to the president Ram minister of state for sports and development, Hardeep Puri and union ministers could be aimed Commenting on the need nated as soon as possible and www.cowingov.in . Nath Kovind, vice president M youth welfare, Kiren Rijiju,       the union minister of state for at expediting various important to launch this centre, Dr this drive is a step in that direc- Encouraging everyone to Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha union finance minister tourism Prahlad Patel. works in the state especially in Sandeep Singh Tanwar, vice tion. take the vaccine, Dr Tanwar speaker Om Birla. On June 14 Nirmala Sitharaman, petrole- ronment and forests, informa- It will be recalled that dur- view of the coming Vidhan president of operations and The aim is to vaccinate added, “Vaccination is the only and 15, he is also scheduled to um and natural gas minister tion and broadcasting minister ing his recent visit to the nation- Sabha elections slated to be unit head said, “We all need to over 300 people daily in this way through which we can win meet various union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, envi- Prakash Javadekar and the al Capital, the chief minister had held early next year. come together so we can put month-long drive. We have this battle against Covid - 19.” $%&     (                

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You are step- The bonds that you have year’s passing out parade. the shoulders of the young offi- Staff Banner’ was awarded to tries. turnout as well as the crisp, syn- ping into an era typified by dis- forged here shall bind our However the scaled down cer- cers. Dograi Company for standing       The parade which com- ergised drill movements indi- ruptive technologies, blurring countries together and guide emony retained the old The awards overall first among 16 compa-    menced with the marker's call cating high standards of train- definition of threats, expanding our partnerships ahead in this grandeur it is known for. To The reviewing officer pre- nies for the spring term 2021.     made from the top of the ing and discipline imbibed by domains of conflict and an complex, yet inter-connected conform to the Covid- 19 pre- sented the prestigious ‘Sword Foreign Gentlemen Chetwode building marched in the young leaders. interplay of multi-polar com- globalised world. We must vention protocols, the drill of Honour’ to Mukesh Kumar Cadets  (- coordination on the sympho- The parade presented a plexities. The external and work and move forward with formation of the parade was who also received the ‘Silver The passing out contingent ny of the military tunes of “Col ceremonial guard of honour to internal challenges that our our strong belief in Vasudhaiva adapted to maintain requisite medal’ for standing second in had 84 Foreign Gentlemen  (&)-(2 Bogey” and “Sare Jahan Se the RO who presented awards nation faces from adversarial Kutumbhakam.’’ distance between the files and order of merit. Cadets (FGC) belonging to Acchha”. At the end of the to the outstanding performers forces are only set to increase The parade was preceded columns while executing the Academy Under Officer nine countries who are friend- he Indian Army received a parade, the passing out con- . The prestigious ‘Sword of as we rise to take our destined by a solemn wreath laying cer- drill movements over the Deepak Singh was awarded the ly with India. Afghanistan with Tshot in its arm on Saturday tingent crossed the Antim Pag Honour’ was presented to place in new global order.'' emony at the academy war reverberating drill square ‘Gold Medal’ for the GC stand- 43 young officers had the high- when 341 youths joined its (the last step) which heralded Battalion Under Officer (BUC) Congratulating the 84 FGCs memorial in which the GCs against the impressive back- ing first in the overall order of est number of FGCs while ranks as officers after passing the start of their career in the Mukesh Kumar for being from nine friendly foreign and officials of academy drop of the historic Chetwode merit. The ‘Bronze Medal’ for Bhutan had 18 FGCs in the out of the portals of the Indian armed forces. adjudged the best all round GC countries the RO said, “As you remembered its 883 martyrs building. Everyone was seen standing third in order of contingent. In third position Military Academy (IMA). The The reviewing officer (RO) in the passing out course. step into the folds of the army, who made the ultimate sacri- wearing masks and adhering to merit was presented to was Tajikistan with 13 FGCs. passing out contingent of 148 of the parade was the General While addressing the pass- every bit of what you have fice in service of the nation the social distancing norms in Loveneet Singh. Mauritius had four, Vietnam Regular Course (RC) and 131 Officer Commanding in Chief ing out course, the reviewing imbibed here shall be put to test through the years and all com- the ceremony. The ‘Silver Medal’ for two while Kyrgyzstan, Technical Graduate Course (GOC in C) South West officer, exhorted all to dedicate and each one of us have com- mitted themselves to follow the As per the protocol of being best in the order of Maldives, Sri Lanka and Tonga (TGC) also included 84 Command, lieutenant general themselves to the service of the plete confidence that you shall same path of bravery and self- Covid- 19, the parents and rel- merit from ‘Technical had one FGCs each in the pass- Gentlemen Cadets (GC) from RP Singh. He congratulated the nation and said, “These are come out with flying colours. less courage. atives of the young officers Graduate Course’ was con- ing out contingent.  % " ! $ &-./010-    !""#$##

 .)(*/-) polity”. rule, it is the Dalits, farmers, welfare which had been long political career as it marks The BSP will fight 20 of the youth and women who have brought to a grinding halt in the triumph of the concept of he political temperature in 117 Assembly seats in Punjab, been hit the most. It is very 2017 will start moving again ''Sarb Saanjhivalta'', ''Sanman TPunjab warmed up ahead while the rest will be contest- important for us to make this with added momentum,” said te Smajik Insaf'' (fraternity, of the 2022 Assembly polls with ed by the SAD. After the alliance a success,” she said in Badal in a statement here. equality and dignity) based on the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) announcement of the alliance, another tweet. Badal said, “The new devel- the ideal of ''Sarbat da Bhala'' and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Badal congratulated Mayawati In another tweet, opment (alliance) will ensure (welfare of all).” announcing the alliance almost over the phone and invited her Mayawati said, “This is an welfare of all Punjabis, espe- Badal recalled how during 8 months before the polls on to visit Punjab. He also told her appeal to all the people of cially of down trodden and the governments he headed, Saturday. to contest from Punjab. Punjab to support the historic exploited segments of society special attention was paid to the BSP chief Mayawati, who Former Uttar Pradesh chief alliance between Akali Dal including the farmers, the fulfilment of the dream of was not present in the official minister Mayawati appealed to and BSP and start working farm labour, the dalits, the social justice with the intro- announcement, termed the the people of Punjab to sup- wholeheartedly to form the unemployed youth, small and duction of path breaking alliance as a new political and port the “historic” alliance government of this alliance medium traders, entrepreneurs schemes for justice and social social initiative which will between the SAD and the BSP. during the elections to be etc.” welfare. usher in progress and pros- “The alliance announced by held early 2022.” The Akali stalwart said "I urge both SAD and BSP perity in Punjab. SAD patron SAD and BSP in Punjab today Meanwhile, Akali stalwart that peace and communal har- leaders to work tirelessly and and five-time chief minister is a new political and social and former Chief Minister mony will continue to be top selflessly to begin a new era in Parkash Singh Badal described initiative, which will surely Parkash Singh Badal said with priority for the alliance. Punjab and eventually in the the formation of the SAD-BSP usher in a new era of much- this alliance, the process of jus- “The alliance is a tribute to country in which every citizen alliance as “the beginning of a awaited development, progress tice and equality for the poor, the composite vision of Guru has access to basic necessities secular, federal democratic rev- and prosperity of the people in said Mayawati in a tweet in Punjab, alleging that every the society in Punjab is suf- the down trodden and the Nanak Dev, Guru Ravidas and and comforts of life and create olution in the state and the the state. Hearty congratula- Hindi. section of the society was fering from poverty, corrup- minorities will also get a boost. Bhagvan Balmiki and great conditions in which every cit- country for a total socio-eco- tions and best wishes to the BSP supremo attacked the “suffering” in the state. tion and unemployment, etc. “In Punjab, the wheels of saints and seers. That makes izen can live in dignity and nomic and political revamp of people for this historic step,” Congress-led government in “Although every section of under the Congress party''s progress, prosperity and social today the happiest day of my honour” said Badal. )  P )       -    6  *(             .)(*/-) items at this time of a nation- Badal said. a part of the treatment package the exemption category. Is this Oxygen, testing kits, ventilators, al crisis, and recorded their He regretted that the GoM is also exempt since the entire how the Union Government Bipap Machine, and pulse tating that the COVID-19 note of dissent. The other alter- is not acting with compassion, transaction is considered a ser- wishes to collect revenues, he oximeters among others reflect   0  0 Scrisis is a once in a century native is to charge 0.1 percent, and it is parroting the Union vice. asked? an insensitiveness and lack of calamity, Punjab Finance which is well within the pow- Government, perhaps out of He criticised the discussion It may be recalled that the compassion.  .)(*/-)      Minister Manpreet Singh Badal ers of the GST Council, and the fear that they may not be for restricting GST on govern- GoM was deliberating on He cautioned that the     H   on Saturday stated that the this measure should be in place included from a future GoM. ment hospitals versus private granting a concession in the tax attempt to pick and choose unjab Police on Saturday !  H  H  GST’s Group of Ministers till the pandemic is over. He also called upon the look at hospitals stating that both treat rate to furnaces from 18% to exemptions on the grounds of Parrested the Haryana-based (GoM) should stop acting like Releasing his remarks and the entire GST issue holistical- the people of India. The idea 12%. Similarly, the RT-PCR inverted duty structure or man whose credentials and       9 a shahenshah of yesteryears interventions made at the 44th ly so that a due, considerate and that we need GST registration machine is already purchased cheaper imports would end up documents were used to hire a ' !  0 and instead let compassion meeting of the GST Council, humane approach is adopted to and billing and later file returns at a concessional rate, and destroying the very foundation flat for the hideout of slain speak through its decisions. the Punjab Finance Minister help ameliorate the sufferings are farcical. What would a practically all states also regu- of GST. Finally, the Punjab gangsters-turned-drug smug- Jaipal and Jassi, that they were Asserting that all COVID- urged the ruling government to of the people of India. consumer feel seeing GST late the price of a COVID test. Finance Minister stated that glers Jaipal Bhullar and Jaspreet holed up in a rented apartment related goods must be zero- include representatives of the Manpreet reminded the reflected on an invoice, the Hence, the recommendation to COVID-19 related exemptions Singh alias Jassi in Kolkata. The in Kolkata. rated during the pandemic, Congress in the Group of GoM that health care services, Punjab Finance Minister retain a tax rate of 18 percent should not be over by August arrested person has been iden- The ADGP said that pre- the Punjab Finance Minister, Ministers (GOM). “It is pre- including all recognized sys- asked? is senseless, he added. 31, 2021. Is Covid going to be tified as Sumit Kumar, a resi- liminary investigations had along with other Finance posterous that the principal tems of medicine (Allopathy, Manpreet vehemently crit- The imposition of GST on over by then, he asked? We dent of Meham in Haryana. found that both Sumit Kumar Ministers representing the opposition party of India in Ayurveda, Unani, icised the attempt to garner Covid preventive materials, need to have a more realistic The development came and Bharat Kumar, who were Indian National Congress both the Lok Sabha and the Homoeopathy, Yoga), are revenues from furnaces from starting with GST on vaccines and reasonable time frame and three days after Jaipal Bhullar business partners since 2015, (INC), opposed the imposition Rajya Sabha has been exclud- already exempt under GST. crematoriums stating that this and items like masks, PPEs, one which is based on com- and Jaspreet Jassi were neu- were involved in illegal sale of of GST on COVID related ed in the GoM,” Manpreet The supply of medicine that is category should be even above hand sanitizers, Medical Grade passion, Manpreet added. tralised by the STF West fancy mobile numbers, includ- Bengal Police, after they fired ing mobile numbers of foreign on the West Bengal Police based telecoms, purchased party when they raided their from different countries and 5 %      GKG   #=:.  0   flat in Kolkata. other states, and they used to ADGP Counter sell them across Punjab, Intelligence and Organised Haryana at exorbitant rates.   %     %      .)(*/-) Crime Control Unit (OCCU) He said that Bharat was Amit Prasad said that they also found to be in possession  .)(*/-) ond dose and 1,97,014 FLWs have been ifty six more people died from coronavirus in Punjab on Saturday as 979 have managed to nab Sumit, a of an official ID of Constable administered the first dose and 81,163 1-1 3A  Ffresh cases pushed the state’s infection tally to 586,947, according to a med- close associate cum business Amarjit Singh, which was he Haryana Government aims to FLWs have been administered the = ical bulletin. So far, the infection has killed 15,503 people in the State. Six deaths partner of Bharat Kumar, who being used to evade toll plazas Tvaccinate each and every eligible second dose. Sharing information on Haryana on Saturday reported 45 were reported from Amritsar, five each from Fazilka, Ferozepur, Gurudaspur, helped Jaipal Bhullar and Jassi while escaping from Gwalior. beneficiary at the earliest and has for- vaccine administered to beneficiaries Covid-related deaths taking the cumu- Patiala; four from Faridkot; three each from Bathinda, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala in escaping from Morena, “Although, Bharat claimed that mulated plans for the same, an official above 18 years of age, the spokesper- lative toll to 8,949 while 426 fresh infec- and SAS Nagar in the past 24 hours. Amritsar reported 99 infections, followed Gwalior and arranged hideout Constable Amarjit is his and spokesperson of the Health son said that 49,23,914 beneficiaries tions pushed the total case count to by 92 in Ludhiana and 91 in Jalandhar. The number of active cases dropped for them in Kolkata, after they Sumit’s mutual friend, the Department asserted on Saturday. have been administered the first dose 765,522. to 14, 064 on Saturday. With 2,135 recoveries, the number of cured persons killed two ASIs Bhagwan Singh Police are investigating why he He said the state has administered of vaccine and 8,58,986 beneficiaries According to the health depart- reached 5,57,380, as per the bulletin. There are 195 critical patients who are and Dalwinderjit Singh of was in possession of Amarjit’s the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to have been administered the second ment's daily bulletin, the latest deaths on ventilator support while 2,659 are on oxygen support. A total of 99,96,859 Jagraon Police at grain market, official ID and if the latter had 82 per cent of Health Care Workers dose of the vaccine. include eight from Hisar, six from samples have been collected for testing so far in the state, it said. Jagraon on May 15. any knowledge about his offi- (HCWs) and 82 per cent of Frontline The spokesperson said the state has Panipat, five from Jind and four each Bharat was arrested with cial ID being misused by Workers (FLWs) which is even higher a high percentage of administration of from Sirsa, Jhajjar districts. Meanwhile, 7-0  , .30 bore pistol and Honda Bharat,” said ADGP Amit than the national average of 81 per cent. first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to pri- Hisar reported 40 new cases while 36 Chandigarh on Saturday reported 58 new Covid-19 cases, taking the infec- Accord car from near Prasad. On the status of vaccine administered ority groups - HCWs and FLWs - while were from Sirsa, 34 from Fatehabad. tion tally to 61,056. Three more deaths were registered on the day, taking the Shambhu Border in Rajpura Meanwhile, further inves- to priority groups the spokesperson said the percentage of administration of sec- The total active cases are 5186, the bul- toll to 789, a health bulletin from the administration said. The union territo- area on June 9 and on his dis- tigations are being carried out that 2,15,077 HCWs have been admin- ond dose of the vaccine for HCWs is letin said. The total recoveries so far are ry has 540 active cases now. It showed 2,408 tests were conducted over the last closures, Punjab Police gave to investigate the role of Bharat istered the first dose while 1,36,945 50 per cent and for FLWs it is 37 per 751,387 while the recovery rate is 98.15 24 hours. The UT also recorded 79 recoveries, taking the number of cured peo- information to the West Bengal and Sumit in criminal actions HCWs have been administered the sec- cent. per cent. ple to 59,727. Police that the gangsters duo, and activities. *++,(-.-.(/ '  Q    R   ' #0.#0  010 / "#-"   .)(*/-) polls. adding that the revamp of the things better,” the Chief Minister an obvious case of “sour grapes’ Reacting to Manisha state’s schools was an exercise said, responding to Sisodia’s since NCR Delhi had scored a  .)(*/-) the third meeting of the steer- ing state government’s land in idiculing the Delhi deputy Sisodia’s allegation of a ‘secret undertaken by his government charge of `jugalbandi’ between poor 6th ranking in the list. ing committee under the the slums of urban areas. RCM’s atrocious allegation of pact’ between Prime Minister as a top priority, and the Modi and him (Capt). Expressing shock at the AAP o help slum dwellers have Basera scheme, chaired by The 1996 households, a political conspiracy of the Narendra Modi and him (Capt Performance Grading Index From a ranking of 22 on the leader’s shameful attempt to give Ttheir own home, Punjab the Chief Secretary, here. who have been given the pro- Centre and the Punjab govern- Amarinder), the Chief Minister (PGI) 2019-20 released by the earlier index that was in place a political colour to the excellent Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan With this, Punjab has prietary rights, were located at ment in the matter of school edu- said the AAP leadership was so Union Education Minister when he took over as Chief outcomes of the hard work and on Saturday approved grant- become the first state in the 24 slum sites in Patiala, cation ranking, Chief Minister obsessed with electoral politics recently reflected the success of Minister, to Number 1 on PGI commitment of thousands of ing proprietary rights to 1996 country to launch a scheme Ludhiana, Mansa, Ferozepur, Capt Amarinder Singh on that it saw poll conspiracies those efforts. scale, Punjab’s school education school teachers, administrators, slum households in six dis- for granting proprietary rights Barnala and Kapurthala dis- Saturday termed it a clear case of even in something as basic as “If you are really interested has undergone a massive trans- education officials etc, Capt tricts under the Chief Minister to the slum dwellers occupy- tricts. the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) school education. in improving the education sys- formation, said Capt Amarinder. Amarinder said it was evident Capt Amarinder Singh’s flag- crying foul in the face of its “Come to Punjab and I will tem of Delhi, maybe you should “Your political dialogues cannot that Arvind Kejriwal’s party was ship slum development pro- imminent wipeout from show you around our schools,” do a jugalbandi with me, and I undermine this success,” he said, used to seeing everything from gramme- ‘Basera’. Punjab in the 2022 Assembly said Capt Amarinder to Sisodia, will teach you how to manage terming Sisodia’s comments as the telescope of politics. The approval was given at   +     '    ,' '   ' 

vegetation or more active inter- tor and more than 500 players cially insects is called pest control properties. Tree ventions to accelerate natural in the unorganised sector. The kairomones. More than 75 resistance to insects is an ideal regeneration, as well as tree pesticide demand is close to kairomones have been identi- method of controlling forest planting and use of non chem- 69,211 MT per annum. India’s fied for control of insect pests insect pests, at no extra cost in icals methods in pest manage- pesticide industry is the largest all over the world. In 1930, material or labour and with no ment. in Asia and the twelfth largest Beeson observed that adults of danger from chemicals residue. Insect pests, diseases and in the world with annual mar- Hoplocerambyx spinicornis, Teak clones, TNT-11, TNT-6 weeds are the major constraints ket of Rs 197 billion in 2018 Sal heartwood borer attracted and KLK-2 are more resistance limiting productivity. It is esti- and further projected to reach from at least one kilometer to teak defoliator, Hyblaea mated that herbivorous insects a value of Rs 316 billion by away by volatile chemicals puera. Poplar clones is resis- eat about 26 per cent of the 2024. At the same time, there emanating from newly felled tance to Poplar defoliator, potential food production. In is a rising public concern about trees. Based on this observa- Clostera cupreata. India, pesticide use has been the potentially adverse effect of tion, he developed Trap-Tree About 60 per cent of the increasing at an annual rate of chemical pesticides on human Method for controlling the natural control of insect pests 2.5 per cent in early 1970 and health, environment and bio- attack of Sal heartwood borer is by the enemies of insect pests 8.1 per cent from 2014 to 2019. diversity. in Sal forest. The ideal Trap- such as parasitoids, predators About 96,000 tonnes of tech- Many organisms use Tree is one of 60- 90 cm girth, and insect pathogens. Carabid , nical grade pesticides are cur- chemicals for communication with 2-3 m long logs and the beetle, Calosoma beesoni, rently produced in the country, with other organisms and their bark near the cut ends beaten occurs in deodar forest is an nvironment includes water, of which two-thirds are used in surrounding environment. up to provide shelter for bee- important predator of Deodar Eair and land, and their agriculture. Maintaining high- Semiochemicals are chemicals tles. defoliator, Ectropis deodarae inter-relationships with human er yields also led to a dramat- used for communication Pheromones are a mixture Prout. Egg parasitoids, beings, other living creatures, plants and microorganisms. ble and culturally acceptable ic increase in pesticide use, between organisms and sub- of chemicals released by an Trichogramma spp. is an The list of issues surrounding can be termed as a resource. from 5,700 tonnes in 1960 to divided into kairomones and individual into the environ- important and efficient bio- our environment go on, but The process of transformation 61,702 tonnes in 2019-20. pheromones according to ment for specific reaction and logical control agent of Teak there are major ones that affect of things available in our envi- Although per hectare pesticide whether the individuals these chemicals act between defoliator. the majority of them- global ronment involves an interactive use in India is about 290 involved belong to different or individual of the same species. Using such non-chemical warming and climate change, relationship between nature, grammes, pesticides are used same species. Semiochemicals These are also called insect means of pest management water pollution and ocean technology, institutions and indiscriminately and maxi- are well-developed in the insect behaviour modifying chemi- can go a long way in restor- acidification, loss of biodiver- humans to accelerate econom- mum consumption of pesti- world, they are highly biolog- cals. The pheromones of more ing the environment while sity, plastic pollution, defor- ic development. Environmental cides is in Punjab (700g/hec.). ically active and effective at low than 20 insect pests have been also being viable from other estation and chemical pollu- restoration is defined as actions Out of 292 pesticides registered concentration and they are fully optimised in India. aspects. tion. Everything available in to re-instate ecological process- in the country, 85 technical non toxic to plants and animals. Botanicals disrupt the fun- the environment which can be es, which accelerate recovery of grade pesticides are manufac- A chemical substance emit- damental or physiological or (The author is officer in- used to satisfy our needs, pro- environment, ecological func- tured in India. Indian agro- ted by one species and espe- biochemical process of insects. charge of Entomology Discipline vided, it is technologically tioning and biodiversity levels. chemicals market has close to cially plant that has an adaptive As many as 2,171 plant species at Forest Research Institute, accessible, economically feasi- It includes simply protecting 80 players in the organised sec- benefit to another species espe- have been reported to possess Dehradun) " ! $ &-./010-  # 2

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Congress will help “In the clubhouse, a habeas corpus petition filed him from leaving the country, holds have reported multiple It noted that there is a 64 nized by Defence Research have a “relook” at the issue. Pakistan in grabbing Kashmir.” Pakistani journalist asks this by fugitive Mehul Choksi’s news outlet cases of Covid-19 infection percent increase in the odds of and Development The BJP came out hard, The BJP conducted a question that after the removal lawyers by filing two affidavits AntiguaNewsroom said. this time as compared to most- household transmission asso- Organization (DRDO). Dr. saying the Congress' first love presser and its spokesperson of Narendra Modi, what will in the Dominica High Court. Choksi had approached the ly single cases in families in the ciated with infection with Shivani Verma of Amity is Pakistan and “both share Sambit Patra said the Congress be the Kashmir policy. Choksi is an accused in the high court after the magistrate earlier wave. B.1.617.2 variant compared to Institute of Space Science & same views on Kashmir.” The should change its name from Digvijaya ji thanks that jour- multi-crore PNB Scam. had rejected his bail petition. The report noted that the B.1.1.7. “This study provides Technology (AISST) submitted BJP also demanded answers Indian National Congress to nalist on such a question and According to officials, the Choksi's lawyers had filed Delta variant is fueling the early real-world evidence of the an innovative concept “AI from Congress leaders Sonia Anti-national Congress which, says that if Modi ji is removed CBI will focus on establishing a habeas corpus petition call- Covid-19 second wave in many effect B.1.617.2 variant on Based detection of a person Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on he alleged, is “not only siding from power and Congress criminal culpability of ing his arrest illegal and alleg- parts of India including south household transmission. The based on physiological para- the comment of Singh, con- with Pakistan but also with government comes then he Choksi, his fugitive status, the ing that he was Indian states and spurt in cases findings support existing evi- meters” based on identification sidered close to the Congress China to show India down.” will re-establish Article 370 in pending warrants, Interpol abducted, tortured and hand- in some countries like the UK. dence that B.1.617.2 has a sub- of a person using physiologi- first family. “What do Sonia Gandhi Jammu and Kashmir,” he said. Red Notice and the charge ed over to Dominica author- However, the report said that stantially increased transmis- cal parameters with innovative Replying to a query from a and Rahul Gandhi think about Patra claimed that sheets against him. The ity to deny him rights avail- those vaccinated do not show sibility advantage over the way of data and information Pakistani journalist, Singh said: Digvijaya's Clubhouse state- Digvijaya Singh was a 'stage- External Affairs Ministry will able to him in Antigua and severity of infections, thus call- B.1.1.7 variant,” the PHE fusion. The concept was sub- “Democracy was not there in ment? Is this Congress' stand manager' for the discussion, argue that Choksi continues Barbuda as a citizen. CBI ing for an increase in global researchers said. mitted under Life Science Kashmir when they revoked too? We demand Rahul alleging that the Congress to be an Indian citizen. and External Affairs Ministry vaccinations. This study also found evi- Technology Domain. article 370. Then “insaniyat” Gandhi to hold a press con- leader had himself asked the The affidavits, if admitted, is going to implead in this While other variants most- dence of increased household The DRDO launched a was not there because they had ference and clarify,” Patra said. Pakistani journalist to ask will pave the way for noted petition by claiming India’s ly infect one person in a house- transmission among house- Dare to Dream 2.0 innovation put everyone behind bars. And He alleged the Congress and such a question. “It's all part of lawyer Harish Salve to plead demands to hand over the hold, the Delta infects more holds with an index case of contest under “Atma Nirbhar Kashmiriyat is something, Pakistan are in the same page that toolkit. I request the India’s case in Dominica, they fugitive. than one. This explains why Asian ethnicity,” the researchers Bharat” in August 2020 where- which is basically the funda- on the Kashmir issue and Congress party to change its said. The 62-year-old diaman- several members in many fam- added. They said households in participants were invited to mental of secularism. Because Article 370. name and change INC to ANC The Dominica High taire, who has an Interpol Red ilies were down with Covid-19 are high risk settings for trans- submit innovative ideas on in a Muslim majority state, Patra referred to the past (Anti National Club House). Court has denied bail to fugi- Notice against him, had mys- this time. The Public Health mission of Covid-19 and are an emerging technologies to pro- there was a Hindu king, and comments of Congress leaders People who hate Modi ji have tive diamantaire Mehul teriously gone missing on England has compared the important factor in wider com- mote the individuals and star- both worked together. In fact, Rahul, P Chidambaram, also, in turn, started hating Choksi in the case of illegal May 23 from Antigua and transmission rate of the Delta munity spread. “By assessing tups for innovation in defence reservation in government ser- Shashi Tharoor and Hari India,” he said. entry into the island country Barbuda where he has been variant in a household setting the extent to which B.1.617.2 and aerospace technologies. vices was given to Kashmiri Prasad to say that Congress BJP IT Cell chief Amit after his mysterious disap- staying since 2018 as a citizen with that of the Alpha variant results in onward transmission Verma under the guidance Pandits.” The conversation was always backing Pakistan's Malviya shared a clip of the pearance from neighbouring after fleeing from India. (B.1.1.7), which is also a vari- to household members com- of Dr M.S. Prasad, Director leaked leading to a full blown stand and “ in its hate for alleged clubhouse chat of the Antigua and Barbuda where He was detained in the ant of concern. The Alpha pared to B.1.1.7, we can assess (AISST) has developed an intel- attack by the BJP. Modi, Congress has turned Congress, wherein Singh is he is staying as a citizen since neighbouring island country variant was first discovered in the relative transmissibility of ligent inferencing recognition Union Minister Giriraj anti-national”. purportedly hinting at a pos- 2018, local Caribbean media of Dominica for illegal entry the UK. this variant, and provide infor- system based on physiological Singh tweeted saying: “Today an important topic sible return of Article 370 in reported. after a possible romantic “Overall, we found mation vital to the national and parameters of a person with “Congress' first love is Pakistan. going on in TV channels is Jammu and Kashmir, when his The high court on Friday escapade with his rumoured increased household transmis- international pandemic built-in high accuracy of recog- Digvijaya Singh conveyed 'Clubhouse'. We all have seen party returns to power. (local time) gave the ruling by girlfriend. sion of Covid-19 associated response,” they added. nition.  1 '     -*     2     P2 (-     / &) 34. 4   #    '   '  &'(&$)* campaign against violence tar- geting healthcare professionals. O    P  taking the lead by marking the he Indian Medical However, no hospital will be beginning of a 10-episode series TAssociation (IMA) will closed, it said. on various aspects of the proto- hold a protest on June 18 The IMA said press con-  &'(&$)* Twitter has received a request col to be telecast on Doordarshan against assault on doctors, ferences will also be organised from Indian law enforcement India from June 11 to June 21. with the slogan ‘Save the sav- and they will also meet local he Twitter account of regarding your Twitter account The Ministry also announced iours'. This comes days after NGOs and voluntary service TPunjab’s biggest farmers @MANJULtoons... that claims launching of a mobile applica- the apex medical body had leaders. union Bharatiya Kisan Union the content violates the law(s)  &'(&$)* tion, “Namaste Yoga”, devoted to  &'(&$)* written to Prime Minister It termed “extremely dis- (BKU) Ekta Ugrahan, protest- of India”. Yoga, at the curtain raiser event (./*, O  Narendra Modi seeking his turbing” a series of violence ing at Delhi’s border, was It further stated that Twitter ike last year, this time too, organised online on Friday here. here appears to be no sub- personal intervention in ensur- against doctors in the last two restricted on Saturday. The US- has “not taken any action on the Lyoga and health enthusiasts At the event, Union Ayush Tstantial evidence to sug- .    ing ‘optimum milieu’ for med- weeks in Assam, Bihar, West based social media giant also reported content at this time as across the world will be cele- Minister Kiren Rijiju said that the gest that children will be more ical professionals so that they Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, sent notices to cartoonist a result of this request”. brating the International Yoga series’ central message will be “Be affected or have greater illness .   can work without any fear. Karnataka and other places. Manjul, fact-checking website Mails sent to Manjul, and Day, the seventh in the series, on with Yoga, Be at Home”, which severity due to Covid-19 in Citing incidents of doctors It demanded the imple- Alt News co-founder others do not mention the June 21, within the confines of is relevant in these times of the anticipated third wave, New Delhi: The Drugs and other healthcare mentation of central Mohammed Zubair and others details of the law enforcement their homes as the Covid-19 health emergency while Union according to a new report pre- Controller General of India professionals being assaulted hospital and to take down certain tweets. agency that had raised the legal pandemic continues to disrupt Minister of Information and pared by the Lancet Covid-19 has given green signal to the by the family members and Health Care Professionals Sources said the Ministry of request. normal life. Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar Commission India Task Force CSIR and Laxai Life Sciences relatives of patients, the IMA, Protection Act with IPC and Electronics and IT was not Twitter, in its notice, said it Various Ministries, organi- talked in details about how yoga after convening an experts Private Limited to conduct in a statement, asked all its Code of Criminal Procedure involved in sending these legal is the company's policy to noti- zations in the private and gov- can become a way to a healthy group comprising leading pae- clinical trials of Colchicine state and local branches across (CrPC), standardisation and requests to Twitter. It wasn't fy users if it receives a legal ernment sector and State and happy life. diatricians to examine the on Covid-19 patients. the country to observe the augmentation of security in clear which agencies have request from an authorised Governments are holding events The series is produced by issue of ‘paediatric Covid-19’ Colchicine in combination protest by wearing black each hospital, and declaring flagged these tweets by and for entity (such as law enforcement to mark the D-Day in a big way, Morarji Desai National Institute in India. with standard care is seen as an badges, masks, ribbons, shirts hospitals as protected zones what violations. or a government agency) to with the Union Ayush Ministry of Yoga (MDNIY). However, it cautioned, the important therapeutic inter- and running an awareness among others. Restricting the BKU Ekta remove content from their health system needs to gear up vention for Covid infected Ugrahan handle, Twitter said account. Twitter further for a paediatric case load with patients with cardiac co-mor- “Caution: This account is tem- informed the account holders ,       0  adequate infrastructure, ear- bidities and also for reducing sentation and outcomes of “Nine per cent of all hos- porarily restricted”. “You’re that while the platform is marked facilities at primary, pro-inflammatory cytokines, infected children during the pitalised COVID-19 positive seeing this warning because unable to provide legal advice,  0 Category and Open Category. A secondary and tertiary levels leading to faster recovery. PNS two surges noted thus far, the children presented with severe there has been some unusual “We want you to have an participant may play in only one of care, oxygen availability, data of approximately 2,600 illness, under 10 years of age. activity from this account,” it opportunity to evaluate the ith cities across the coun- of the two categories. The day appropriate equipment, hospitalised children, below The above observations were said. request and, if you wish, take Wtry making a determined coincides with its eighth trained manpower, drugs and matic mild infections are pre- the age of 10 years (excluding similar during the two surges Ugrahan had sparked con- appropriate action to protect fight-back in the face of Covid- anniversary and is named injectables among others, all dominant. Most children have neonates), from 10 hospitals of COVID-19 infections India troversy last year by commem- your interests.” 19 and the resulting lockdown, Extra-C Anniversary of which are specific to chil- fever with respiratory symp- (both public and private), in has experienced,” the Lancet orating the International “This may include seeking it is time to celebrate the Crossword test (ExACT). dren. toms, and often present with Tamil Nadu, Kerala, document said. Human Rights Day on legal counsel and challenging indomitable human spirit. To Chief Operating Officer of The report authors, which gastrointestinal symptoms Maharashtra and Delhi-NCR On multisystem inflam- December 10 by holding up the request in court, contacting mark a determined progress on Extra-C, Amitabh Ranjan, included three doctors from (such as diarrhea, vomiting, region, was collected and matory syndrome (MIS-C) in posters of detained activists relevant civil society organisa- the way to normalcy and pay informed that the challenge AIIMS, Delhi including pain in abdomen) and atypi- analysed. children, the report said, risk such as Umar Khalid, Sharjeel tions, voluntarily deleting the tribute to the resilience of the will be hosted for an hour on the Sheffali Gulati, Sushil K Kabra cal manifestation compared to According to the data, factors for this condition Imam, Sudha Bhardwaj and content (if applicable), or find- human mind, an online cross- website www.crypticsingh.com and Rakesh Lodha said the adults. The proportion of mortality rates amongst these include obesity, asthma, com- Gautam Navlakha, among oth- ing some other resolution,” word challenge is being organ- from 11 am on June 13. The infection’s symptomatology in symptomatic children increas- surveyed hospitalised Covid- promised breathing, develop- ers. Twitter added. ised on Sunday. Student Category will allow children in India appears to be es as age increases as does the 19 positive children below mental disorders, cardiac dis- Meanwhile, the screenshot Twitter has been facing According to a Press state- students from schools and insti- globally comparable. severity in such age groups,” the age of 10 years was 2.4 per ease, cancers or immuno- shared by Manjul showed heat for delay in complying with ment by the organiser Extra-C, tutes of higher education to “Most children with the report stated. cent and about 40 per cent of compromised children as well Twitter as saying: “In the inter- the IT rules that mandate large a civil society initiative based in enter the game while the Open Covid-19 are asymptomatic, In the absence of a nation- the children who died had as those who have undergone est of transparency, we are digital platforms to undertake Patna, there will be two cate- Category with a higher level of and amongst those sympto- al database on clinical pre- comorbidities. surgeries. writing to inform you that greater due diligence. gories in the contest –Student difficulty will be open to seniors.  4     0       '  

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Tensions over the new tion or application of the pro- our middle class at home,” hurt American businesses. based intermediate-range bal- imum level required for nation-           matic feud over Northern trade rules were a contributing tocol (by the EU) is sensible or Jake Sullivan, the president’s “It has the potential to listic missiles in the neigh- al security, and does not com-        Ireland, the only part of the UK factor to a week of street vio- pragmatic.” national security adviser, said stop the race to the bottom,” bourhood of other countries,” pete with any other country in   !  " that borders the 27-nation bloc. lence in April, largely in union- The EU says Britain must Friday on Twitter. said Thornton Matheson, a Wang said. the size or scale of nuclear The EU is angry over the ist areas of Northern Ireland, fully implement the agree- A minimum tax is sup- senior fellow at the Tax Policy Though Wang has not force,” he said. 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Instead, his adminis- it told the US to cease inter- might have have escaped from Former US President Biden plans to return more responsible use of federal funds,” tration set aside about $15 bil- fering in its internal affairs and a laboratory in the central city Donald Trump took an adver- than $2 billion that the Trump the Office of Management and lion through a combination of accusing Washington of politi- of Wuhan, where cases were sarial approach with NATO administration diverted from Budget said in a statement out- congressional appropriations cising the search for the origin first discovered. allies, but Macron said Biden the Pentagon to help pay for the lining the plan. and taking the money from the of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yang said China was has shown that “leadership is wall and use other money The government has built Pentagon and other parts of the Senior Chinese foreign pol- “gravely concerned” over what partnership.” appropriated by Congress to walls and other barriers along government. icy adviser Yang Jiechi and he called “absurd” stories that The desire for coopera- address “urgent life, safety, and the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilome- The Trump administra- Secretary of State Antony the virus escaped from the tion cuts both ways. Biden environmental issues” created ter) US-Mexico border for tion built about 725 kilometres Blinken held a phone call Friday Wuhan lab. China “firmly described the European Union by the construction. It also asks decades to eliminate some of of wall, moving quickly and that revealed wide divisions in opposes any despicable acts as “incredibly strong and lawmakers not to provide any the easier routes of avoiding waiving requirements for envi- a number of contentious areas, that use the epidemic as an vibrant,” which he said not only additional funding for what the checkpoints. Trump turned the ronmental reviews and medi- including the curtailing of free- excuse to slander China and to helps with tackling economic Biden team believes is an issue into a centerpiece of his ation, though only about 52 84 doms in Hong Kong and the shift blames,” Yang was quoted challenges but also provides a unnecessary effort. political identity. kilometres were in areas where mass detention of Muslims in as saying by the official Xinhua backbone for NATO. “Building a massive wall Trump vowed to build a no barrier previously existed. the northwestern Xinjiang News Agency. 1%Q% 9 /       9      R"  +        + %- R    !     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Icheckpoint near Jerusalem shot and killed a on the nation. The former premiers — Sher Bahadur front-runner in Friday’s upcoming vote, with the The national coronavirus woman on Saturday who allegedly planned to Deuba, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Madhav Kumar public now largely hostile to the relative mod- taskforce reported 6,701 new carry out a stabbing attack. Nepal, Jhalanath Khanal and Baburam Bhattarai- erate President Hassan Rouhani after the collapse cases of infection in Moscow, The police said in a statement that the guard made the joint appeal in a statement. of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers. compared with 2,936 on June at the Qalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem Prime minister Oli, currently heading a But that didn’t stop Rouhani’s former 6. Nationally, the daily infection saw the woman with a knife and shot her. minority government, has continuously been Central Bank chief Abdolnasser Hemmati from tally has spiked by nearly half Several amateur videos captured by attacking the Constitution of Nepal and under- harshly criticizing Raisi, at one point getting over the past week, to 13,510. Palestinians at the crossing showed the woman mining the long and arduous struggle of the up from his chair to hand him a list he After several weeks of lock- lying on the ground at the Israeli side of the Nepali people to achieve the federal republic and described as naming individuals who haven’t down as the pandemic spread crossing. Police later said she was a 28-year old its rule of law, the Kathmandu Post reported, cit- paid back huge loans from state banks. He in the spring of 2020, Moscow Palestinian woman. ing the statement. again tried to link Raisi to former President eased restrictions and did not Qalandia is the main crossing point for “We warn the caretaker government not to Donald Trump, whose decision to unilateral- reimpose any during subse- Palestinian residents of the West Bank enter- do anything or direct others to do anything that ly withdraw America from Iran’s nuclear deal quent case increases. ing Israel, especially those bound for Jerusalem. would have a long-term impact on the country has seen the country crushed by sanctions. But because of the recent The checkpoint is operated by private securi- and people and appeal to the administration and “Mr. Raisi, you and your friends have played sharp rise, “it is impossible not ty firms, but Israeli police deploy after violent security agencies not to be involved in such in Trump’s ground with your extremist policies,” to react to such a situation,” incidents. The official Palestinian news agency, wrong activities,” they said in the statement. Hemmati said. For his part, Raisi said he’d make Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Wafa, reported that Israeli forces closed the “He has displayed the ugly form of lust for sure the government returns to the nuclear deal. He ordered that enterpris- crossing point on both sides. power that has never existed in Nepal’s politi- The deal “would not be executed by you, es that do not normally work on Starting five years ago, Palestinians cal history. We condemn such undemocratic acts it needs a powerful government to do this,” weekends remain closed for launched stabbing and car-ramming attacks by Oli,” they said. Raisi said. The election Friday will see voters the next week while continuing against Israelis in the occupied West Bank and The statement comes at a time when the pick a candidate to replace Rouhani, who is to pay employees. In addition, annexed east Jerusalem, but the attacks have Supreme Court started hearing on the case term limited from running again. The vote food courts and children’s play waned in recent years. The Palestinians seek the regarding the reinstatement of the House of comes amid tensions with the West as nego- areas in shopping centers are to West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority Representatives, which was dissolved by tiations continue to try and resuscitate the close for a week beginning exerts limited self-rule, as part of a future state President Bidya Devi Bhandari on May 22 at the nuclear deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its Sunday, and restaurants and alongside Gaza and east Jerusalem. Israel says recommendation of Prime Minister Oli, who lost enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lift- bars must limit their service to Jerusalem is indivisible. Peace negotiations have a trust vote in the House last month. PTI ing of economic sanctions. AP takeout from 11 pm to 6 am. 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")/) policy direction should lead to could potentially ply on its eign travel, overtime allowance,   game changer in the adoption indigenous development of roads by 2026, said a report on rent and office expenses, in the of eco-friendly vehicles. future technology.” Saturday. current fiscal year as it tightens    3 The Government on the subsidy by 50 per cent per Expressing similar views, The Grant Thornton its purse strings amid the sec-  3    Friday made a partial modifi- KWh is a phenomenal move. Society of Manufacturers of Bharat-Ficci report said for ond wave of the pandemic.     4  3 charges, grants-in-aid general, ernment is staring at an addi- cation of the scheme for Faster Sales of electric two-wheelers Electric Vehicles (SMEV) India to reach its vision of 100 The Department of    3 contribution and other charges, tional expenditure of up to Rs Adoption and Manufacturing have grown despite the pan- Director General Sohinder Gill per cent EVs by 2030, factors Expenditure under the Finance should also be cut. 1.45 lakh crore to provide free of Electric Vehicles in India demic and with this addition- said, “It’s an important and an such as increasing government Ministry issued an office mem-  3     The Savings that would vaccines and foodgrains to Phase II (FAME India Phase al subsidy, we expect electric admirable decision taken by the support, decreasing cost of orandum in this regard on  3   accrue to the Government due people devastated by the dead- II), including increasing the two wheeler sales to disrupt the government, a move that will technology, and distressing June 10. to this move cannot be exact- ly second wave of covid infec- demand incentive for electric market, and clock 6 million- bring down the prices of elec- pollution levels, would be key “All the Ministries/ depart- ministries should aim to con- ly ascertained. This is the sec- tions. two-wheelers to 15,000 per plus units by 2025,” Ather tric two wheelers nearer to the to accelerate this transition. ments are requested to take trol expenditures like over- ond year in a row that the gov- Reversing a policy where KWh from the earlier uni- Energy CEO and Co-founder IC (internal combustion As per EV industry body - steps to curtail all avoidable time allowance, rewards, ernment has come out with states competed for vaccine form subsidy of 10,000 per Tarun Mehta said in a state- engine) vehicles and remove Society of Manufacturers of non-scheme expenditure and domestic and foreign travel, measures to rationalise expen- supplies for certain age cate- KWh for all EVs, including ment.The Government’s con- one of the biggest blockade of Electric Vehicles - there are aim for 20 per cent reduction office expenses, rents, rates diture. Last year, the expendi- gories, the government earlier plug in hybrids and strong tinued support to drive adop- the high sticker price of electric 1,800 charging stations in India in controllable expenditure.... and taxes, royalty. ture department had asked all this week announced that the hybrids except buses. tion of EVs, with a keen focus two-wheelers.” as of March 2021 for approxi- Expenditure in 2019-20 may be Besides, expenditures relat- ministries /departments to central government will pro- In the latest modification, on locally built electric two- Elaborating further, he said mately 16,200 electric cars, taken as the baseline for this ed to publications, other review appointments of con- cure vaccines for all adults. the department of heavy indus- wheelers will make India the a ‘city speed electric scooter’ including the fleet segment. purpose,” the memorandum administrative expenses, sup- sultants, curtail functions and All above 18 years of age tries also capped incentives manufacturing hub of EVs, he with a range of 100km/charge “Overall, the EV infra- said. However, expenditure plies and materials, cost of ban use of imported paper for would get free vaccines from for electric two-wheelers at 40 added. will now cost less than Rs structure is tightly coupled related to containment of the ration, clothing and tentage, printing as part of measures to June 21. Also, the free food- per cent of the cost of vehicles, Welcoming the “govern- 60,000 and a high-speed scoot- with the EV and charging sta- pandemic is excluded from advertising and publicity, rationalise non-priority expen- grain scheme that was to end up from 20 per cent earlier. ment’s continued support to er with a range of 80 km will tion characteristics, battery the scope of this order. minor works and maintenance, diture. in June has been extended till “The revision in the EVs”, TVS Motor Company come nearer to the price tag of technologies, and electricity The memorandum said, service or commitment As per estimates, the gov- November 2021. FAME (II) policy, increasing Joint Managing Director Rs 1 lakh. markets,” the report said. 36%$       % (23  Q $ )' 7  '  '      %  '$ '  0  9:0; Cardiff (UK): The climate cri- sis is certain to be a hot topic  &'(&$)* at the G7 summit in Cornwall.  &'(&$)* While the leaders of the ow base effect accelerated world’s richest countries agree Lthe growth of India’s phar- ndia Power Corporation Ltd in theory on the need to reach ma sector in May, India Ratings Ion Saturday said its profit net zero emissions by 2050 at and Research (Ind-Ra) said. after tax (PAT) jumped 60 per the latest, they remain faithful The ratings agency opined cent to  26.66 crore in the fis- to a fossil fuel industry reluc- that the 47.8 per cent YoY cal year ended March 31, 2021. tant to substantively change its growth in India’s pharmaceu- In 2019-20, it recorded a business model. tical market (IPM) during May profit of 16.69 crore, a com- A recent report by the 2021 was led by a low base pany statement said. International Energy Agency, a effect. The Kolkata-headquar- typically conservative advisory gas demand is predicted to rise referred to as carbon lock-in. Last year, the IPM declined tered company is an integrat- lockdown during the first two body, argued for an immediate at least for the next 15 to 20 Economies have evolved in by 8.5 per cent YoY in May As per the report, during cent YoY and 59.8 per cent YoY ed power utility with distribu- quarters of the financial year. ban on new fossil fuel projects. years, particularly in emerging such a way that they perpetu- 2020 due to the lockdown. May 2021, volumes grew 31.5 respectively, while gastro grew tion licence covering 618 “We were able to over- But investments by oil, gas economies such as China and ate an energy landscape dom- “IPM growth would have per cent YoY, price growth 47.7 per cent YoY during May square kilometres in Asansol- come the setback of the coro- and coal companies into find- India.This puts G7 leaders in inated by fossil fuels and been stronger on an adjusted was 7 per cent and products 2021. “Growth under-perfor- Ranigunj region of West navirus pandemic by adding a ing new sources continue, as an awkward position. On the plagued by an inability to rad- basis,” Ind-Ra said in a state- launches were at 9.3 per cent, mance was observed in chron- Bengal. It provides power to large number of consumers does industry lobbying to one hand, governments ically change. ment. attributed to acute therapy ic therapies during the month, industrial, commercial and across voltage levels, which undermine regulation. need to reboot economic Not only does carbon lock- “Acute therapies namely products. with cardiac and anti-diabetic domestic consumers. resulted in accelerated sales The environment ministers growth after the pandemic in result in inertia, it causes a anti-infective, analgesics and “Ind-Ra estimates the mar- growing 31 per cent YoY and Total income for the year growth from second quarter of the G7 countries committed slowdown – a profitable tragedy of the commons-type vitamins benefited significant- ket to grow 8-10 per cent YoY 20.2 per cent YoY, respective- was at  518.37 crore, it said onwards. to end funding for new over- energy sector nourished problem. ly due to the second Covid in size during FY22.” ly.” without disclosing the com- Our ability to procure seas coal projects by the end of by rising demand abroad is Big oil companies such as wave as these therapies have a Besides, it cited that acute “However, on a moving parative figure. power at competitive prices led 2021. welcome, even though hydro- BP, Exxon Mobil and Shell are direct/indirect role in the treat- therapies such as anti-infec- average total (MAT) May 2021 India Power further said to cost savings and further But 51 per cent of their carbon extraction can be espe- unlikely to make meaningful ment of Covid patients. Acute tives, analgesic and vitamins basis, a growth out-perfor- its sales increased by 2 million improved our earnings,” India Covid-19 economic recovery cially polluting in developing changes until the rest of the sys- therapy growth was also aided witnessed sales growth of mance was observed across units in 2020-21 despite the Power Whole-time Director funds – a total of USD 189 bil- countries. tem acts in unison. National oil by the low base in May 2020.” 141.19 per cent YoY, 50.3 per these therapies.” impact of the pandemic and Somesh Dasgupta said. lion– paid between January Governmental support for companies and smaller pri- 2020 and March 2021 were ear- the industry in the form of sub- vately owned fossil fuel com- marked as financial aid for the sidies or tax breaks artificially panies comprise the bulk of  &    ) fossil fuel industry. Worse, inflates the profitability of fos- known fossil fuel reserves.  7.' %  7 USD 8 of every USD 10 dedi- sil fuels, in turn making renew- But they often evade the ?1@   cated to non-renewable energy ables a less attractive invest- spotlight and so can operate      was paid with no conditions on ment. Put simply, it is less with more freedom. For a big   '  these companies to reduce risky and more profitable to – oil company to make high-risk       8 "9'  their emissions. at least for now – invest in oil changes to its business model Why does it seem so hard and gas.Carbon lock-in while others enjoy a free ride     for G7 leaders to match their The fossil fuel industry would be seen as a bad business  &'(&$)* words with action when it continues to shed public sup- decision. New Delhi:Adani Enterprises   .)&* comes to the fossil fuel indus- port, but it can rely on the fact Lock-in, as the name sug- Ltd (AEL) on Saturday said it day after the Karnataka try? that it’s embedded within a gests, is very difficult to break. has incorporated a wholly- AHigh Court judgement dis- G Power Industrial Power Betting on the long-term complex system of consumers, That said, G7 members are owned subsidiary, Adani missing the petition of Amazon CSolutions Ltd has planned business case Despite setbacks suppliers and contractors, powerful nodes within this Cement Industries Limited & Flipkart, the Confederation a capex of 135 crore this fis- in volatile markets and over- politicians and the media. complex network. Strong lead- (ACIL), to manufacture all of All India Traders (CAIT) on cal, the company said. supply risks, there is still a lot The cause-and-effect rela- ership – such as divestment types of cements.In a filing to Saturday sent a communication The capex to be funded out of money to be made from tions that define such an intri- from fossil fuels and strong BSE, the company said it incor- to Union Commerce Minister of internal accruals will be on extracting, producing and sell- cate system often produce support for renewables – would porated the wholly-owned sub- Piyush Goyal urging him to balancing, debottlenecking and ing hydrocarbons. Demand for unintended outcomes. cause reverberations through- sidiary on June 11, 2021 and direct the Competition fresh Press Note replacing Press posed that to bring greater modernising the facilities at the coal has plateaued, but oil and This interdependency is out the whole system. the subsidiary company yet to Commission of India (CCI) to Note 2 of the FDI policy with transparency in e-commerce plants for productivity commence its business opera- immediately initiate investiga- a Monitoring mechanism to business, every company improvement. tions. The new company will tion proceedings against ensure that law of the land pre- indulging into any e-commerce CG Power also said barring carry on business as manufac- Amazon and Flipkart without vails and no one should dare to activity through any type of four wholly owned overseas turers,producers, processors of any further ado. violate the policy, law or the electronic mode should have to operating subsidiary compa- all types of cements. The CAIT has also urged rules. take a Registration Number nies in Sweden, Germany, the Goyal to immediately issue a The CAIT has also pro- from the DPIIT. Netherlands and the US, rest of the subsidiaries are being closed or in the process of being wound up. - 8  *  *0,% $*. Entities which are under investigation, would be closed   &          after obtaining necessary approvals of the authorities, the company said. &  & (      CG Power said it is ensur- ing business continuity during ellore Institute of 1,00,000 from 15th to 16th July     Covid-19 pandemic by work- VTechnology (VIT) declared 2021.Applicants who secured ing with extended and stag- the results for VIT Engineering more than 1 lakh rank are eli-  626!* gered shifts in the plants and Entrance Examination gible for admission in VIT-AP digital transformation through (VITEEE) on Saturday (June and VIT Bhopal only. he country’s largest public online customer inspections, 12, 2021). The classes are likely to Tsector insurer, Life online service advice, sharing VITEEE, the entrance commence from Aug 2, 2021. Insurance Corporation of India pictorial procedures with onsite examination for various B.Tech Under the G V School (LIC) has issued a public warn- customer personnel, remote programmes offered by VIT Development Programme ing over the unauthorised use support for testing equipment. was conducted on May 28, 29, (GVSDP), Central and State or misuse of its iconic logo by The company closed last 31 and June 10, 2021 as online board exam toppers would be anybody. fiscal with a total income of remote proctored examina- given 100 percent fee waiver for According to its Twitter 2,568.06 crore and a net loss tion. This mode enabled appli- all the four years. Candidates handle, the LIC has barred any of 208.93 crore down from a cants to take VITEEE in the with ranks up to 50 would be websites, publishing houses or total income of 3,226.36 crore safety and comfort of their given 75 percent tuition fee digital entities from publishing and a loss of 1,799.20 crore home. The results are available waiver, those with ranks 51 to its logo without the prior per- registered in FY20. in”https://admissionresults.vit.a 100 would get 50 percent mission. The 65-year-old LIC, However CG Power has c.in/viteee”. tuition fee waiver and candi- which is soon going for its IPO, posted a net profit of 673.77 Applicants from 31 Indian dates in ranks 101 to 1,000 has warned stringent legal or crore during the last quarter of states and 8 union territories would be given 25 percent civil action against any person last year. and more than 15 foreign tuition fee waiver. found misusing its official logo, Last year CG Power was countries participated in The district toppers (one in a post on Friday. acquired by Murugappa VITEEE. Applicants within 1 boy and one girl) in all the dis- The simple but logo con- Group’s Tube Investments of lakh ranks are eligible to par- tricts of Tamil Nadu, Andhra sists of a flame symbolizing ‘life’ India Ltd. ticipate in the counselling Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh with two shielding hands of ‘life Under the one time settle- scheduled from 21st June to who are studying in insurance’ indicating its pro- ment scheme, the entire debt of 16th July 2021 in 4 phases. Government schools in rural tection, with the Sanskrit leg- 2,160 crores were settled at Counselling for ranks 1 to areas will be given 100 percent end below it - “Yogakshemam 1,000 crore - (650 crore in 20,000 will be conducted from fee waiver and exemption from Vahmyaham”, derived from the cash and the rest by recognis- 21 to 22 June; 20,001 to 45,000 hostel and mess fees under the Bhagwad Gita, and the LIC ing a new debt of 150 crore from 30th June to 1st July, 2021; STARS (Support The headquarters at Nariman Point and issue of zero coupon non- 45,001 to 70,000 from 8th to Advancement of Rural in south Mumbai is also named convertible debentures aggre- 9th July 2021 and 70,001 to Students) scheme. ‘Yogakshema’. gating to 200 crore).   ) " ! $ &-./010-

4!($"- ?  0-* arbora Krejcikova won her maiden Grand Slam singles Btitle at the French Open on - ' ;+=  -9  Saturday, beating Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to 1  "   .   % become the first Czech woman in  40 years to conquer Roland ?  0-* Q=  in 14 semi-finals in the French Garros. (  ),3;< )  capital. Krejcikova, ranked 33 in the !          ) ovak Djokovic handed    78  7 “Probably it was not my best world and playing just her fifth 13-time champion day today, even if I fought,” said main draw in a Slams singles NRafael Nadal only his 6 #   Nadal. “Sometimes you win, event, triumphed 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 for 6      .  O   third defeat in 16 years and 108 sometimes you lose. I had a big a second career title. matches at the French Open on     chance. There were some crazy The 25-year-old emulates Friday to reach his sixth Roland !  points but there was fatigue compatriot Hana Mandlikova who    - /  Garros final after an epic show- there.” claimed the trophy in Paris in down which even beat the coun-  <   Djokovic finished with 50 1981. the next six games as her Czech oppo- try’s Covid-19 curfew.     winners; Nadal committed 55 The 25-year-old Krejcikova nent grabbed three breaks and raced In their 58th career clash,      unforced errors under the dedicated her victory to her men- way with the opener inside half an Djokovic triumphed 3-6, 6-3, 7- relentless assault. tor, the former Wimbledon cham- hour. 6 (7/4), 6-2 and stays on course  &8 *  Djokovic had two break pion Jana Novotna who died of can- Krejcikova was rewarded for her to capture a 19th major and 1  . points in the opening game of cer at the age of 49 in 2017. bold attacking, hitting 13 winners to become the first man in over 50 the first set which stretched to “It’s hard to put into the Russian’s seven. years to win all four Slams     &, 10 minutes but was unable to words. I cannot believe Pavlyuchenkova, who made her twice. +   convert. I have just won a Slam debut back in 2007, was the Djokovic, the 2016 champi- Nadal made him pay, sprint- Grand Slam,” more composed player in the sec- on in Paris who had also beat-  3  ing away for a 5-0 lead before the said ond set, stretching out to 5-1. en Nadal at the 2015 tourna- .     < top seed got on the board. Krejcikova A medical timeout at 5-2, ment, will face Stefanos Tsitsipas      . Djokovic clung on, retriev- who was during which she was seen in Sunday’s final in what will be ing one break to get to 2-5 but still out- munching Haribo gummy bears, his 29th championship match at    7 4  Nadal eventually prevailed after side the merely delayed the Russian levelling the Slams. *    one hour on court even if he top 100 the final. Tsitsipas had earlier become required seven set points to when the In the decider, the players the first Greek to reach a Grand edge ahead. 2020 French Open exchanged breaks in the third and Slam final with a 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, The old rivals exchanged took place last October. fourth games, before the Czech broke 4-6, 6-3 victory over Alexander breaks in the second and third “I spent a lot of time to love for 4-3 on the back of a 10-shot Zverev. games of a big-hitting second set with Jana before she died. Her rally. Nadal, 35, remains tied on but it was Djokovic who repeat- last words to me were ‘enjoy Pavlyuchenkova saved two 20 majors with Roger Federer. ed the feat for a 4-2 lead before tennis and try and win a Grand championship points in the ninth “It was a privilege to face levelling the tie. Slam’. game and a third in the 10th but Rafa in such an incredible Twice in the third set “I know she’s looking after Krejcikova became champion match,” said Djokovic after four Djokovic edged ahead, only to me. All this is pretty much on the fourth when the Russian hours and 11 minutes of intense be reeled back in by Nadal who because she is looking after hit long. action. “Tonight it was my great- broke back in the 10th game as me. Both est ever match in Paris.” the world number one served “It was amazing women capi- He now leads Nadal 30-28 for the set. that I got the talised on a in their career rivalry. Djokovic then saved a set chance to meet draw in “It’s hard to find point with an ice-cool drop her. She was such which the words for Rafa’s shot in the 12th game. an inspiration. I top seeds achievements at Roland “You cannot play better clay miss her and I fell and just Garros. The amount of court tennis than this. It’s per- hope she’s really kept falling. wins on this court is fect,” tweeted Andy Murray. happy.” World incredible,” he added. A 92-minute third set ended In a nervy start number one “You have to climb with Djokovic taking the to the final, and 2019 cham- Mount Everest when tiebreak. Nadal then broke in the Krejcikova was pion Ashleigh you meet him here.” first game of the fourth set but broken in the first Barty hobbled out It was Djokovic’s Djokovic levelled for 2-2 and game, serving up in the second round. second win in eight broke again for 4-2. two double faults. Serena Williams was knocked meetings in Paris with He finished it off on a sec- However, the out in the fourth round, world num- Nadal, a sequence ond match point when Nadal hit 29-year-old ber two Naomi Osaka withdrew after which also included wide and long to conclude a Russian was one match, while 2018 champion three losses in finals. match on the same court where unable to capi- Simona Halep never even made it to It was Nadal’s first defeat they first met in 2006. talise and dropped Paris. '$   2' 0.!= Sehwag looking forward to Boult vs Rohit contest *..    &'(&$)* be looking forward to. If Rohit rather than going in with four gets set and see off Boult’s pacers, India should go with '  '$ ) P'Q Karachi: The Pakistan pener Rohit Sharma coun- opening spell, it will be a treat two spinners in their five- Board (PCB) will bid for five Otering ’s to watch,” feels one of India’s man line-up as it Birmingham: Initially not way to do that. So I’m hoping major events of the International incoming deliveries will make greatest match winners. would also strengthen their expecting to feature in the it puts me in good stead (for Cricket Council (ICC) during for a fascinating contest, some- While this would be lower middle-order batting. ongoing second Test against the WTC final).” the 2024-2031 cycle, including thing that Virender Sehwag Rohit’s first shot at opening in “I don’t how the England, New Zealand pacer New Zealand have plenty an edition of the Champions will be looking forward to English conditions, the expe- would look like on June 18th Trent Boult is hopeful that of bowling options ahead of Trophy and World T20 Cup. during the World Test rience of playing Tests in 2014 but one thing I have always achieving game fitness rather the marquee Test next week According to an official Championship final between will certainly help him. believed is that you need to than bowling in the nets will with pacers , Kyle source, the PCB is in the process India and New Zealand, start- “Rohit is a fantastic bats- play to your strengths. If India put him in ‘good stead’ in the Jamieson, Neil Wagner and of preparing its bids for the ICC ing in Southampton on June man and he has played Test can play with five specialist upcoming World Test performing well in events which have to be submit- 18. cricket in England earlier also bowlers that will be great thing Championship final against ongoing series but Boult feels ted soon. “The ICC had asked Sehwag, who redefined the (2014) so I think he can man- because I still believe that two India. some ‘hard calls’ are on the for the expression of interest art of opening batting in Test age well as we have seen in spinners will come into effect “Initially I wasn’t expect- cards. from its member countries. cricket, feels that Rohit’s qual- recent times when he has on fourth and fifth day. ing to play this game but “Healthy competition,” Once the Boards submit their ities and recent form at the top opened the batting. I have no “Two spinners will be everything fell into line, and Boult said about their pace- bids, an independent commit- of the order certainly makes doubt that he will score runs in good for India because both I gave myself that chance to bowling options for the WTC tee of the ICC will assess the bids him a candidate to succeed England this time. Ashwin and Jadeja are capable get out there and I think I’ll final. in December this year to give its during the six Test matches in “Obviously, as it is for any all-rounders. That also adds definitely be better off for “The boys are very excit- report for a final decision next England this summer. opener, he would have to be depth to your batting. You that head out,” Boult was ed about the prospect, but year,” the source said. “No doubt Trent Boult- careful for the first 10 overs don’t need a sixth batsman quoted as saying by they’ve put in a lot of hard The source said Pakistan Tim Southee combination will and see off that new ball to with both of them around.” ESPNCricinfo. yards not just over the last has already held talks with the pose a lot of challenge for understand the conditions Sehwag also wants Pant to “It’s one thing loading couple of weeks but over a Emirates Cricket Board to joint- Indians. They can move the first. I am sure he will get a bat the way he knows and not and getting through num- couple of years of a Test ly host some ICC events. ball both ways and are brilliant chance to show his range of get bogged down by too much bers in the nets but to simu- Championship cycle. It was 24 years ago when while bowling in partnerships strokes,” said the man, who has analysis and dissection about late that kind of game fitness “Some hard calls will have Pakistan last hosted an ICC also,” Sehwag said. scored more than 8000 Test technique and temperament and having to come back to be made but the big picture event — 1996 World Cup — “Boult vs Rohit Sharma runs. needed to be successful in three, four or five times in a is the collective goal of lifting jointly with India and Sri will be a contest that I would Sehwag also believes that England. day … there’s no real other the world title,” he added. PTI Lanka. PTI B *  9   Pant smashes ton, Gill .%  -<  =  ?:, 9  ' 85 in intra-squad game

New Delhi: India’s white ball then can meet in common squad, led by Shikhar areas inside the bio-bubble. 4'    6 )  Dhawan, will quarantine in The players will do gym ses- Mumbai from June 14 to 28 sions in staggered manner.” London: The England and of a number of Internationals agreed to the executive’s recom- and undergo six RT-PCR tests While the three-match Wales Cricket Board is to have been scrutinised, with an mendation for a social media on alternate days before flying ODI series starts on July 13, it launch a ‘social media review’ unnamed player found to have review to address any histori- off to Colombo for the six- is expected that Indian team that could lead to disciplinary sent offensive tweets while cal issues, remind individuals of match series against Sri Lanka, will have match simulation action following the fall-out under the age of 16. their personal responsibilities starting on July 13. practice (situational training) Southampton: The flamboyant from Ollie Robinson’s Twitter Meanwhile, the experi- going forward, and help them It is understood that all after individual sessions, fol- Rishabh Pant took his senior posts. enced England trio of James learn lessons along the way. the Standard Operating lowing three days of room bowling colleagues to the clean- The Sussex seamer was Anderson, Jos Buttler and lim- “The board was clear that Procedures (SOPs) that will be quarantine at the team hotel ers with an unbeaten century 8'9: suspended from England duty ited overs Eoin Morgan this process would not prevent followed by the Lanka-bound in Colombo. while opener Shubman Gill also (  );3;< )  pending an investigation after have all faced accusations of further disciplinary action in the squad will be same as those of “It will be just like what’s warmed up with a polished 85  45  6 historic racist and sexist posts publishing potentially offensive future, should that be required, the first team currently in the happening in England. Match during the Indian team’s intra- made in 2012 and 2013 re- messages. under the applicable processes, United Kingdom for the situations will be created and squad match simulation over the ?  !*-6*/)6 last week’s first Test at Lord’s, emerged during his Test debut The ECB board met on but it is hoped that the game can World Test Championship that’s how the intra-squad last two days. was unbeaten on three. against New Zealand at Lord’s Wednesday and have decided emerge from this difficult peri- final and five-match series training will be held. The two teams are being led oss Taylor’s 80 guide New New Zealand resumed on last week. to look into the issue in more od stronger and determined to against England. “You can’t have your by Virat Kohli and KL Rahul RZealand into a first-innings 229-3, a deficit of 74, after Will Since Robinson’s posts re- detail, with a statement issued be more inclusive and wel- “All the rules will be main players get out off the with all the first team batsmen lead over England in the second Young had been dismissed for emerged, the social media feeds on Saturday saying: “The board coming to all.” AFP same like we followed in first ball and not bat again or packed in one side and the reg- and final Test at Edgbaston on 82 off the last ball of Friday’s England. The outstation bat for the whole innings. ular bowlers on the other, with Saturday. play when part-time off-spinner It was an encouraging sign despite taking the new ball, with But Bracey’s joy turned to players will come by Everyone needs train- reserves like Wriddhiman Saha New Zealand were 326-5 at Dan Lawrence had him caught for New Zealand ahead of their Bracey, fresh from his second despair three balls later when charter flight and ing so it won’t be and . lunch on the third day, 23 runs at short leg. appearance in next week’s inau- in as many Tests, conced- the relatively novice gloveman some fly business practice games as Pant, who has been in the ahead of England’s 303. Taylor, was 46 after gural World Test Championship ing nine byes. dropped new batsman Blundell class of commer- such,” the source form of his life, hammered The Black Caps had the bet- opener Devon Conway had fol- final against India at Taylor’s impressive innings after failing to hang to a low cial airline,” a said. The Indian every bowler including the spin- ter of the session, scoring 97 lowed his stunning 200 on Southampton. ended, however, with New one-handed chance off Stone as BCCI source teams over the ners in his unbeaten 121 off 94 runs for the loss of two . debut in last week’s drawn first Taylor, however, should Zealand in sight of a first- he dived to his right. privy to devel- years have balls. Opening the batting with Tom Blundell was 24 not Test at Lord’s with 80. have been out for 68 but a mis- innings lead, when he tried to But Bracey’s see-saw match opment said. always stayed at Rohit Sharma, Gill scored 85 off out after being dropped on The experienced Taylor cued hook off Stuart Broad attack Olly Stone but succeed- continued when Henry Nicholls “They will the Taj 135 balls. nought by opposing wicket- completed just his second fifty was dropped by substitute Sam ed only in edging to Bracey. a ball after being hit on the hel- do seven days Samudra Kohli’s team was only trou- keeper James Bracey. in 15 Test innings when he Billings at fine leg as England New Zealand were then met by a Mark Wood bouncer, of room quar- Hotel in bled by veteran pacer Ishant Daryl Mitchell, one of six swept Lawrence for four, his sev- missed yet another chance. 292-4, with Taylor having gloved down the legside on 21 antine and Colombo. 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Narender Modi has shown the people of India sure you are not a bad person with ill inten- zens. Detecting bot accounts and misinforma- a difference of intelligence or any other genetic that he is the only leader who can lead India to tions because the kind of damage AI can do to tion is already hard for social media compa- advantage; it was merely a case of a larger pool become a developed country. The first thing he our democracies, relationships, health and nies. What happens when they have to distin- of data. The compounded benefit of better did in his reign was to eliminate the corruption communities are far more severe than we cur- guish between the thoughts of flesh beings and decision-making strengthened their position as that was rampant all over India. The corrupt rently understand. And this damage is going to silicon avatars? better deserving of making important deci- bureaucrats were fired and the black money that be deeper and more nuanced, like murder Even when the political moment is over, sions. It created a self-serving cycle that kept was stashed away was brought back to India. without a murderer, a fountain of blood but no imagine how it changes people. If AI can tweet improving the decisions made by them, earn- The people were fed up of the scams that were knife. and talk like a person, would you be more ing them even greater power. These pocket taking place in the country. Modi has made sure It is the closest we have come to the sci-fi alarmed about the account which replied to machines work the same way but have the data that the corrupt people are punished and put dystopia feared for so many decades. AI does- your post yesterday? Would you be sure they of all the earth’s drivers combined and aug- behind the bars. Modi has shown that the coun- n’t need to be a conscious entity with a desire actually agreed with you, are they genuine ment drivers to be much better at their jobs. try is secure in his hands. He has made sure that for power, nor does it need an Iron Man suit to allies? Suspicion and mistrust can be lethal That’s just one example of how a combina- no terrorist would be able to penetrate into the do real damage to real people. When we talk weapons to make us doubt the reality around tion of AI and algorithms changes our lives country and destroy the peace that we have in about not-yet-possible AI in anthropomorphic us. every day right now. It impacts who has the India. He has also made sure that the Chinese form, we forget a form of it is already here. power to lead and who is left behind. are not able to cross the border and conquer any And until we understand how it can hurt us,     of the Indian territory. we will not know how governments and com- Even though an AI program has a prede-   Q  panies can use it to manipulate common peo- fined objective, we don’t quite know how it will When a breakthrough in AI happens, it he passage above is neither my opin- ple for greater power. go around achieving that objective. There is no can be deployed before any government can ion nor my writing. In fact, it was Stuck at homes we are spending more time simple mathematical function AI follows to get blink an eyelid. There limits to how we can not written by a human being at all. on social media and the internet than ever. It the outputs from the inputs, even though it has regulate a technology the creation of which It was generated using one of the means more of our beliefs are shaped by a vir- been designed purposefully to get those specif- doesn’t even need an office building let alone a most advanced language models tual world that we would never verify and ic outputs. We can observe and study how it registered GST address. It doesn’t come asking Tever — OpenAI’s GPT3. The instruction I gave experience personally. AI may have had the behaves by adjusting levers in a controlled for environmental and labour permits. the model was: Write an essay about Prime distant potential to disrupt our lives for years, environment, but we still don’t know what kind Governments can attempt to control big cor- Minister Narender Modi and his ideology. Using but now more than ever it has an immediate of relation it develops between the input and porations from following some ethical princi- publicly available information it can generate chance to touch us as we scroll our timelines output and whether these relations can be ples and defining what’s okay. Sadly, Indian coherent thoughts best resembling a human for sharing SOS messages and distracting our- translated into real-world properties at all. politicians and bureaucrats are highly unlikely writer. The model can create new ideas, classify selves from the horror outside. Many traditionally human-intensive jobs to lose sleep over the design and data of AI information like moods and intentions, sum- are already being augmented by tech, making anytime soon. marise content, chat like an empathetic friend       people’s skills less central to the equation. Ever The transport ministry will be better off and even write basic computer code. It can Let’s look at the anatomy of a conversation had a bad day and a worse Uber driver who beginning the work of mitigation now rather often ramble and throw meaningless sentences on social media. For example, you hear about a wouldn’t pay any heed to the Google Maps’ than after all the driving jobs in transportation too, like most humans, I guess. report of political corruption at the highest lev- traffic-congestion warnings? He thinks he are lost. Transport minister Gadkari may or The model is so good at producing human- els of government. You create a hashtag like knows these streets better than any American may not be around to defend his position of like sentences that the company which built it #CorruptionHurts. Your friends and their corporation ever will. He knows which route is not letting autonomous driving happen in the has decided to not give out access to this tool friends share it, popular pages use the same shorter and quicker because driving is what he country. India spent a lot of effort wooing Tesla to the general public. They sell the right to use hashtag and some big celebrities also join in. has spent his life doing. There’s no point fight- to India when the car maker’s ultimate pitch is GPT3 to a selected group of people and strong- Twitter picks up your chatter and features it in ing to persuade each other when confirming vehicles that can drive themselves. We want ly review what you do with it. They do not per- the ‘Trending’ section. )&,$+!2$'- both his and Google’s hypothesis that the traf- Tesla’s factory jobs but fear its main product. mit its use for political campaigns, spam, hate- The leader in question is of course threat- /***,!& fic will cost you more time than taking a bad India is like a man in his midlife crisis who ful content, content that incites violence, or ened by this public mobilisation. So they get !&&-%*9,-6&( option. Even when he surrenders to your argu- likes looking at children but not spending time other uses that may cause social harm. their own troll army to use the same hashtag to .**@&"'&),2$(E ments about Google Map’s algorithm and takes with them. Whether the paragraph above is for a political either tweet gibberish, highlighting the corrup- that unintuitive path to drop you at the desti- The only bulwark against AI is to be bet- campaign or not is for you to judge, or might tion of the Opposition or calling the dissenters !&, +'*),2- nation on time, he still cribs about the path not ter-informed citizens. We shouldn’t be okay depend on where it is published. It can easily a gang of hooligans. When the next person /,8&-6&!,*/ taken. In any case, he is always right. with our government boasting about selling qualify as public awareness advertising with tries to click on the hashtag to learn more or !,2&$$*/,2- Of course, the algorithm is not always our driving license data in the parliament or some skilful explanation. search the trend, it will appear to be a partisan (-*8*/$*.&&(* right. We selectively remember the times it using facial recognition technology to identify Absurd, isn’t it? A company limits its cus- issue where one can pick their monster or didn’t alert us about the diversion, but there is protestors. Neither should we naively get excit- tomer size when so many others are waiting in declare the whole thing a hoax. Unimaginable? )&0-$*6&,- a logic behind its accuracy that we generally ed every time a company talks about a ‘person- line to give them their money. It doesn’t have We don’t know if this was government-spon- 2*/9.*$ trust. It gathers data from millions of other alised’ diet, music playlist, book recommenda- to market its product, it has to keep it quiet sored obfuscation but this is what happened -&.,/**, cars, analyses the historical traffic-movement tion, career counselling or the next shiny thing and control what you do with it. Imagine you during the Russian protests of 2011 when peo- &.),$,/+,*(&*9+ patterns of a neighbourhood and predicts the made just for us. go to buy a new car, and you first have to sub- ple came out against ballot stuffing and voting soon-to-be congestion on your path. AI can be great to increase the wealth and mit an application describing where you’re irregularities in the elections. After the Russian 0-,&,-"&*)&- Even though this sophisticated synthesis of happiness of humans but we must be making going to drive it and the car manufacturer says police detained protestors at Moscow’s ),2$('&*8&$+/& data has been around for a while, it has gained more intelligent choices about when to let it in. they can anytime decide you’re a bad driver Triumfalnaya Square, activists created a mas- &N.*&(&8&-+*6& increasing traction in the past decade. Never Exciting technology solutions should not steal and take the car back. You would probably sive tweetstorm with the hashtag .,60+$ !,2 before have we had the capacity to collect these our attention from things that matter and think the car ain’t worth the fuss. #Triumfalnaya (in Russian). It wasn’t much many data points nor the computing power to make life worthwhile. If there are no vaccines And you’d mostly be right. You can do later that the same anti-government hashtag N0&-,$*&(E(*&# make any meaning of them. Just fifteen years in a country, talking about a facial authentica- pretty horrible things with a car if you want was polluted by pro-Kremlin messages. If you 62*.0$+$*#!,, ago, the best way to predict the shortest and tion system for efficient distribution is like but the damage is still going to be limited. never heard about it, they did a good job. -&.,66&(*,# quickest path to a destination was individual talking about interior design for cloud castles. When you start crashing into other cars and Scholars call this censorship by noise. AI human intelligence. And that largely meant Sounds fancy but is pretty useless. Or even killing pedestrians, the car would either break with its ease of believable content generation at .-&&-.,2&$$*/,- you were a frequent commuter of that route to deadly. down or you will soon enough hit a police bar- scale will make this problem almost impossible )&&N)*+)*/ have formed at least a stable opinion of traffic rier. This level of insanity is pretty rare not to tackle. Every time that the powerful need to 6(&H29,-2 movement. The more outgoing you were, the The writer is the founder of WorkHack and because of the policing by Hyundai or Suzuki, change the narrative and get away with their more personal data you had, the smarter your a Rajeev Circle Fellow. AI and Automation is but because there are real-life consequences to failings, they wouldn’t even have to summon decisions turned out to be. one of the ideas in his book, Now That We’re such behaviour. You’ll land up in jail and the an army of trolls to that. A few skilled employ- In this pre-Google Maps era, individuals Here: The future of everything (published by rest of your life would get very difficult. ees with access to advanced language models with greater social freedom turned out to be Penguin), amongst Design, Data, Behavioural OpenAI has to go out of its way to make will take care of millions of disgruntled citi- better decision-makers. To be clear, this wasn’t Economics and so much more  )  2*!*$*+*,$,/&- !,2(,*/$&)-6"*E !,2(,*/6,-&/,,( 8tdiaƒuxrd  KH,.)&@&*@ *; 8<8* THE VACCINE SOLUTION       .%

he Maldives, along with Dubai, er with high dose vitamin C, Andrographis, the Seychelles, the United Thyme extract etc. as complementary ther- Kingdom, and Israel, are count- apies and all of our patients have gotten bet- ed among the most vaccinated ter with such treatment.” So, irrespective of countries as of now. But while whether one has had the vaccines or not, TIsrael and the UK are seeing the virus maintaining a healthy lifestyle is still very almost disappear, the Maldives, Dubai, and important to ensure that one does not suc- the Seychelles are witnessing the opposite, cumb to this disease. with cases skyrocketing. In the Maldives, the number of cases     has risen from a low of 19 per day in Call it the way forward, but if the December to over 2,000 in late May, the Maldives wants to get both the health and number of deaths, 45, represents one economic long-term benefits of its vaccine third of all deaths that we have suffered roll-out, it might consider changing the since the beginning of the pandemic. brand of vaccines it uses for second shots. This is in spite of the fact that 58% of the There is little information on the effects population has received one vaccine shot, of combining Sinopharm with other vac- and 30% has received both. cines. However, a recent article in the Lancet finds that pairing the Pfizer-         BioNTech and AstraZeneca vaccines The recent rise in cases in Male has led appears to increase the likelihood of mild to hospitals overflowing with patients, and to moderate side effects, but no serious a tragic rise in deaths. Out of the 125 outcomes were reported. In fact, the arti- Covid-19 deaths in the Maldives, 45 cle goes on to say that: occurred during the past month. While the “MIT Technology Review reports that fatality rate remains extremely low (0.2% such an approach could become more of people who caught Covid-19 in the common if mixing and matching Covid- Maldives have died), that statistic doesn’t 19 vaccines is proven to boost the overall provide much solace to those who have lost level or duration of immunity — as tan- loved ones. talizing, early evidence suggests might be The high case load in recent weeks has the case.” also inflicted economic damage. Out of the “Several trials …… have been top ten markets this year, four are no longer launched to examine the question MIT able to travel. Indians (the number two Technology Review reports, including a market this year) are no longer permitted study in Spain assessing the viability of to visit the Maldives. Germany, the UK, and mixing a first doses of AstraZeneca’s vac- France (markets number three, seven, cine with a second dose of Pfizer- and nine) have put the Maldives on their BioNTech, as well as a study between red lists. In the UK, citizens returning home AstraZeneca and Russia’s Gamaleya from the Maldives have to quarantine in a Institute examining how AstraZeneca’s miserable hotel for 14 days. vaccine works in combination with Russia’s According to the Maldives Inland According to one of the experts: “The cines, as well as the feedback of these ..,-(*/,6*-# the Maldives. So, whilst the vaccines Sputnik V vaccine.” Revenue Authority (MIRA), US Dollar rev- mRNA vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) experts, it would seem that Sinopharm may might be less effective in preventing one Early evidence suggests that it is pos- enues collected in January 2021 were are the only ones with published data not be as effective as we have been led to 2(,$$--&8&2& from getting the virus, they are generally sible to combine vaccines and change USD 46 million — just 1% down on showing high performance even against believe. .,$$&.&(* protective against serious disease and course. The Pfizer vaccine is considerably January 2020. But in January, things were the new virus variants. The Chinese vac- death. There are more deaths in Male at more expensive than other options. looking good. Now as many countries’ cit- cines that are being used in many parts        H2-+D>D<'&-& the moment simply because there are Covishield is generally available for some- izens cannot travel here, and revenues in of the world appear to be only weakly        many, many more cases.] where between USD 2-4 per vaccine (if you May and June are likely be similar to protective, from the limited amount of        H2D>",' As we discuss the benefits and draw- 25. Israel was the first to receive a large cost the Government as much as USD 250 Chinese vaccines.” catching the virus, all the vaccines are gen- 6+.,2-*&E backs of different vaccines, it is important amount of Pfizer because they offered the million in lost revenues. Shared another expert: “Sinopharm, erally effective in preventing serious illness to remember that the experience in the company 23 Euros vis-a-vis the 12 Euros unlike the vaccines noted above, is more and, most importantly, death. As one of the .**@&., Maldives, is that if one gets Covid, one has the E.U. countries were offering. It is my       of a “classical” vaccine design (i.e. inacti- experts consulted said: “Even the weakly a 99.8% chance of survival. understanding that Dr Reddy’s One reason could be the choice of vac- vated whole virus) — the kind of vaccines protective vaccines may be quite helpful in -8&$,)& Furthermore, it is important to Laboratories, the Indian manufacturer of cine. The first vaccine Israel used was the which have been trialed (and failed) for preventing serious disease or death.” remember to boost one’s immunity. the Sputnik V vaccine, proposed a price Pfizer-BioNTech. They also have an excess decades for combating seasonal While the number of cases have 6$(*8&#-&8&2& Immune-boosting diet, rich in foods of USD 14 for the vaccine. supply of Moderna. Dubai and the Coronavirus. Although the Sinopharm spiked, and last month, 5 out of 45 fatal- *6+(H2&-& including garlic, turmeric, cardamon, cin- However, as I mentioned earlier, we are Maldives had a similar vaccination pro- licensing studies suggest the vaccine has ities were from people who had already namon, ginger, and red onions is consid- starting to see a big drop in tourism as a gram using a combination of the Oxford 80% effectiveness, the trials had very few received a second dose of the vaccine, the $* &$+!&*6*$-, ered to be of great help. As is popular result of the spike in cases. The econom- AstraZeneca vaccine and Sinopharm. The people over 60 years and I have concerns performance in the Maldives in terms of Ayurvedic herb, Andrographis Paniculata. ic consequences could affect MIRA’s rev- Seychelles is the most vaccinated country about Sinopharm’s effectiveness in older fatalities is amongst the best in the world. ,.,!&-D>D>K=MQ Fortunately, we have had no fatalities enues by as much as USD 10 million to in the world but has relied almost exclu- individuals in particular. Whether A few months ago, the survival rate here among the people who tested positive at USD 20 million per month — consider- sively on Sinopharm. Sinopharm will provide more or less was 99.7%. It is now 99.8%. This is second (,',)&+&- our resort. ably more than the cost of more expensive At Soneva, we consulted six leading resilience to emerging Covid variants, to Singapore at 99.95%. It is also a com- Dr. Abdul Slocum, a Turkish vaccines. Now might be the time cut our infectious disease experts from around such as the new strain found in India mendable performance when compared to &-$*&- Oncologist, who treated his cancer patients losses and buy the more expensive, but the world to assist us with our Covid remains unclear.” India (98.88%), the U.S. (98.21%), that caught Covid recently shared : “We more effective, vaccines. strategy. Unfortunately, the feedback on When one considers the relative per- Germany (97.6%), and the U.K. (97.16%). used anti-coagulants, anti-biotics, anti- The writer is the CEO and Joint the Chinese vaccine was not great. formance of countries using different vac- The Seychelles at 99.65% is slightly behind virals as conventional therapeutics togeth- Creative Director of Soneva .      % 7      %     % %0,;>?5  "             % %     '  % "  /@7 A @@/../27&1 #( 5 

groforestry designates land- population depend on as their pri- rather than alleviating political of clear land ownership rights use systems that deliberately mary source of livelihood. Thus, obstacles has added confusion. which discourages farmers from Aintegrate woody perennials increased socio-environmental Indeed, the creation of a national planting trees, perceived as a long (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboo, concerns have sparked renewed agroforestry board, which aimed term investment. Social discrimi- etc.) with crops or animals. The interests for agroforestry practises. at aligning existing programmes nations along with gender, caste or “forest” within the “agroforestry” Agroforestry provides the oppor- and providing better coordination tribal lines further force farmers can be an existing native forest, tunity to mitigate climate change between the ministries of agricul- to focus on short term yields and the edge of a forest or a planted by reducing emissions from agri- ture, forest and rural development, profits. Therefore, for the agro- forest by the land’s owner. But culture, capturing atmospheric never gained enough authority. forestry policy to be successful, it agroforestry should not be carbon, while simultaneously Therefore, despite successfully is essential to first clarify land reduced to the addition of trees. helping farmers to adapt to harsh- simplifying regulations, the tenure rights while subsidising Agroforestry is a regenerative agri- er climate conditions. Already enabling legal environment is access to land, water, technology cultural practice which, through practised on 13.5 million hectares shadowed by an ambiguous gover- and credit across caste and com- topsoil regeneration, enables in India, the potential to expand is nance system. munal barriers. biosequestration that is the cap- enormous, especially for the 80% Secondly, the policy offers Finally, despite the stated ture and storage of atmospheric of small-holders farmers in the farmers extension services and objective of the policy to boost carbon dioxide. Moreover, agro- country with two hectares of land capacity-building training. market linkages, rural farmers still forestry seeks to optimise the or less. Numerous low-hanging However, inadequate awareness encounter difficulties to find out- vibrant interplays within local fruits stem from tapping into this failed to popularise these policy lets for these products. However, ecosystems to make farms more potential. initiatives. Non-governmental the growing demand given the productive, self-sustained and While at first glance agro- organisations such as Saytrees, popularity to buy local, organic resilient without a lot of external forestry did not seem profitable, who have helped more than 700 and nutritious-indigenous vari- human inputs. Indeed, the today’s socio-environmental crisis farmers, planting 1500 fruit trees eties, should incentivise farmers to dynamic ecological equilibrium makes this long-neglected practise over the past 4 years, act as useful overcome these supply-chain gaps. between trees and crops increases an undeniable solution. According bridges between national programs To conclude, despite the agro- biodiversity while improving nat- to the Restoration Opportunities and on-the-ground realities. forestry policy seeking to extract ural water cycles and enhancing Atlas, India has 87 million Wider local-knowledge dis- agroforestry’s tremendous bene- ecosystem services. hectares of land that could benefit water, agroforestry favours and ter from being contaminated by fore secures farmers’ livelihood. It semination might still be insuffi- fits, farmers still face many chal- Despite its ancient origins, the from agroforestry. 952.5 million takes advantage of natural water excess fertilizers or manures. In also boosts agricultural productiv- cient to overcome farmers’ reluc- lenges to make the transition. practice of agroforestry declined at tons of above-ground carbon cycles. Also, scientific evidence addition to efficient water man- ity since, on smaller plots of land, tance since at first sight, agro- Therefore, complementary ser- the expense of intensive agricul- could be sequestered by just a 20% shows that trees stimulate evapo- agement, a forest’s inherent native agroforestry grows more food forestry might not seem profitable. vices and additional support, espe- ture promoted during the green increase in tree cover. Beyond cli- ration and transpiration thereby biodiversity helps prevent pest than mono-crops per hectare, alle- Indeed, yields might decrease in cially during the transition phase, revolution in the 1970s. Today, the mate change mitigation, agro- increasing local rainfalls. Then, as attacks and soil erosion. viating the current pressure on the first few years until the soil should work in synergy with the agriculture sector suffers from cli- forestry farmers are better the roots of trees extend deeper Therefore, agroforestry allows land. This maximisation of poten- quality has fully recovered. To agroforestry policy. India has mate change while still largely equipped against climate varia- than annual crops, water can more restoration of depleted soils, main- tial yields is all the more pleasing countervail perceived risks during already established itself to be a contributing to it. Indeed, agricul- tions. Although decades of inten- easily infiltrate into the ground, tenance of biodiversity and cli- as harvests prove to be more the transition phase, the policy global agricultural powerhouse ture is responsible for 16% of sive agriculture have depleted soils preventing floods and making mate resilience. nutritious. Therefore, agroforestry should provide safety nets so the and by the successful implementa- India’s annual greenhouse gases and threatened natural ecosystem communities resilient in the face These environmental benefits provides hope for long-term food farmers can change without risk- tion of agroforestry, it could emissions, making it the second services, regenerative agriculture of natural disasters. coincide with socio-cultural posi- security to a growing nation. ing their livelihood in addition to champion sustainable agriculture most polluting sector. However, could repair these damages and Roots also take up nutrients tive externalities for farmers and However, several barriers prevent information about agroforestry’s and inspire other nations to adopt the flip side of the coin is that cli- conserve soils. from deeper layers of soil that oth- consumers. Indeed, agroforestry agroforestry from becoming a longer-term benefits. and implement similar policies. mate change threatens agriculture, For instance, while agriculture erwise cannot be reached by the diversifies types of crops, makes mainstream practice. Another major obstacle the The writers are Fellow, Anant on which about 58% of India’s devours and tends to contaminate crops and prevent the groundwa- harvests more resilient, and there- First, since 2014, the policy policy failed to address is the lack Fellowship for Climate Action   uvitiut # $% &'&$ * R      

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